Rick Sopher

Rick Sopher is the CEO of Edmond de Rothschild Capital Holdings. He has received various industry awards, including the Outstanding Contribution Award from Hedge Fund Review and the Decade of Excellence Award by Financial News. Rick graduated from Cambridge University and has more recently worked in the area of interfaith relations with the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, as a member of their council. During the lockdown period, Rick convened an online dialogue between professors of religion at the world’s leading universities to discuss the relationship between the Qur’an and the Bible, and has himself dialogued with Muslim leaders on the subject. Rick was awarded the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur in 2007 from President Chirac for his contribution to religious education in France. He is also chairman or director of several educational charities in the UK.