JAMES E. LIEBER

James Lieber is a consultant with 30 years’ experience in the strategic management of complex international projects and situations for multi-national corporations, investment funds, organizations and high-net-worth individuals in Europe and the United-States.

Prior to founding Lieber Strategies, Mr. Lieber served from 1997 to 2004 as Director of Corporate Affairs at LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton S.E., working with its chairman, Bernard Arnault, and his executive committee on major projects. Mr. Lieber directed LVMH’s strategy in several multi-billion dollar transactions and business conflicts, leading teams of bankers, lawyers and communications agencies. He managed LVMH’s interests in international trade disputes and European competition clearance situations, working with lobbyists and lawyers in Washington, D.C. and Brussels. He identified and executed a number of acquisitions for LVMH, and was in charge of its public offer for Donna Karan. He also oversaw numerous private equity investments for Groupe Arnault, the family holding company.

From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Lieber practiced law at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where he worked in New York on international securities offerings, privatizations and real estate transactions, and in Paris representing clients in international mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures in the media, luxury goods and pharmaceuticals sectors.

Mr. Lieber is an attorney admitted to practice in the State of New York and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Lieber is a director of LVMH Inc., the holding company for the LVMH Group’s U.S. activities, and of DFS Group, the travel-retail arm of LVMH.  He serves on the board of Gabriel Resources Ltd.,  a Toronto-listed Mining company, as well as Pearl Holdings Inc., a New York-listed SPAC.  He is a member of the board of directors of the French-American Foundation in Paris and of Literacy Inc. in New York and a trustee of the Weidenfeld-Hoffman Trust at Oxford University. He is also a member of the Global Advisory Council of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars,  Panthera’s Conservation Council and the Foundation for Jewish Heritage. From 2004 to 2014, he served as a director of Cheyne Capital Holdings and its various funds, and from 2018 to 2022, he was a director of Stanhope Capital, a private wealth management firm.

Mr. Lieber holds a Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, Illinois, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif, and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut with a Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors in art history.

Born in New York in 1962, he is a dual U.S. and Polish citizen and French resident. He is bilingual in French and English and speaks proficient Italian and basic German and Spanish.