Elisabeth Badinter, a French author, feminist, historian, and professor, has a net worth of $1.7 billion.
Despite publishing “The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women” and serving as a professor at the École Polytechnique in Paris, Elisabeth Badinter was not among the billionaires. She made her debut on the richest list by having a significant stake in Publicis Groupe, a communications company established in 1926 by her late father Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet.
The company, which has sales of $9 billion, has her as its chairman of the board since 1996.