- Chairman and CEO, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton
- Age: 64
- Source of Wealth: LVMH, inherited and growing
- Residence: Paris, France
- Country of Citizenship: France
- Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Ecole Polytechnique de Paris
- Marital Status: Married
- Children: 5
Arnault oversees a luxury empire whose brands include Dom Perignon, Bulgari, Louis Vuitton, Thomas Pink and De Beers.
This fall the billionaire taste-maker to the world appointed his daughter to executive vice president of Louis Vuitton, the second of his children to take a leadership role in the company -- his son Antoine runs the shoemaker Berluti. Arnault hopes to open his new Frank Gehry-designed museum, Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation, in Paris by 2014.