Global businessman Rothschild on business/pleasure trip
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Nathaniel Rothschild
Nathaniel Rothschild, a globally renowned financier and a member of the Rothschild family, is in Sri Lanka on a business cum pleasure trip, his maiden visit to the country.
Over the past few days, before visiting places of cultural interest after Friday, Mr. Rothschild has been meeting political figures including President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe in addition to top corporate personalities, according to Rajan Brito, a veteran corporate personality and former Deputy Chairman at Aitken Spence Holding, who is associated with the visit along with former EU parliamentarian Mr. Niranjan Deva Aditya.
“We learnt of his visit to the Maldives on his own luxury yacht and decided to invite him to visit Sri Lanka to look at the prospects of investing,” Mr. Brito told the Business Times, adding: “I hope he would be interested.”
Mr. Rothschild, 49, is a British-born financier who settled in Switzerland and a member of the Rothschild family. He is the chairman of Volex plc, a UK listed manufacturer and has a wide range of international business interests.
He also visited the Colombo Port City project where he was briefed on the developments.