Marie-Josée Drouin

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Marie-Josée Kravis, born Drouin (born September 11, 1949) is an economist from Montreal, Quebec.

Ms. Kravis is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, President of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a participant in the Bilderberg Group. She is the author of Canada Has a Future (1978) and Structural Adjustment in Western European Economies (1980). She has been a regular columnist for the Montreal Gazette and the Financial Post in Canada and has contributed to the Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications. She has served on the Board of Directors of Vivendi Universal, Ford Motor Company and IAC/InterActiveCorp. She is also on the boards of the Institute for Advanced Study and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She was chairman and remains a director of the Robin Hood Foundation. Marie-Josée Kravis was married to Maestro Charles Dutoit and is presently the wife of Henry Kravis. They have been active philanthropists in the United States and abroad. Recently, they donated $15 million to establish the Center for Cardiovascular Health at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City following another $10 million gift to establish the Women's Pavilion at Mount Sinai. They recently also endowed the Chair in Human Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. They are important contributors to Rockefeller University and to the Columbia Business School. They have funded a wing at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and two galleries at the Museum of Modern Art. They have endowed the chief curatorial chair for Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art and regularly donate gifts of art. They support contemporary music and have commissioned a number of works for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. They also support the Metropolitan Opera and regularly sponsor new productions.

She and her husband reside in their homes in New York City, Southampton, Meeker Colorado, and Paris, France.

In 1993, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and in October 2004 she was awarded the Legion d'Honneur by the French government.