Alicia Koplowitz

About Alicia Koplowitz

In the early 1960s, Alicia Koplowitz inherited a stake in Spanish construction company Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas after her father died.

She sold her stake to sister Esther for $800 million in 1997 and put the money into diverse investments.

Over the years she's invested in steelmaker Acerinox, electric utility Iberdrola, and Banco Sabadell.

Koplowitz owns hotels in Italy and Miami, real estate in Washington, D.C. and Chicago, as well as a stake in Hospes, a Spanish luxury hotel chain.

Her charitable foundation sends Spanish fellows to study child psychiatry in England and the U.S. at Columbia University, Stanford and others.