Jaime Zobel y Fitz (born 1934), also known as Jaime Zobel de Ayala, is a prominent Filipino businessman and philanthropist. He was the last managing partner of Ayala y Compañía in 1967 when the company changed to a corporation. He served as both president and chairman of Ayala Corporation from 1983 to 2005 (succeeding his first cousin, Enrique Zobel). In 2006, Jaime Zobel de Ayala retired as chairman. He is chairman emeritus of the corporation. He has received numerous awards for business leadership and philanthropy.
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After early education in the Philippines, Zobel attended Harvard College, where he graduated in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts in architectural sciences. He attended the Advanced Management Program in the Far East, conducted by the Faculty from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in Baguio, Philippines in 1963.
Zobel entered the family business and helped lead it through decades of changing times, expanding the fields in which it was prominent. From 1970-1974 he was appointed Philippine ambassador to the Court of St. James's in London and the Scandinavian countries.
He is married to Beatriz Miranda Barcon Zobel de Ayala. Together they have seven children. Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, born 1959 and the eldest son, married Elizabeth Eder, great-great granddaughter of the Colombian industrial pioneer James Martin Eder. Fernando Zobel de Ayala, born 1960, married Catherine Marie Silverio. Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, is chairman and chief executive officer of Ayala while the younger son, Fernando Zobel de Ayala, is president of the corporation.