Meet Jean Arnault, Bernard Arnault’s youngest LVMH heir: the MIT graduate runs Louis Vuitton watches, did work experience at McLaren Racing, and was inspired by his Tag Heuer CEO brother Frédéric

  • LVMH boss and world’s third richest person Bernard Arnault has 5 kids, of which 23-year-old Jean Arnault is the youngest – he’s now CEO of Louis Vuitton watches
  • But the young executive is already highly qualified, with two master’s degrees from Imperial College London and MIT and experience at McLaren and Morgan Stanley

Jean Arnault is the youngest heir to Bernard Arnault’s LVMH empire and currently runs Louis Vuitton watches. Photo: @arnaultjean/Instagram
Jean Arnault is far from the average 23-year-old. For starters, he is the fifth and youngest child of Europe’s richest man, Bernard Arnault. Jean also doesn’t have a regular job since his family owns the world’s largest luxury conglomerate, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. He might even run the empire himself someday.

This budding French heir may only have got his foot in the LVMH door recently, but he’s already proving a force to be reckoned with. Here are five things to know about him.

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