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Marie-Josée Drouin, born September 11 1949, is an economist from Montreal, Quebec.
Ms. Drouin is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a participant in the Bilderberg Group. She has served on the Board of Directors of Vivendi Universal, Ford Motor Companyand Interactive CorpShe is also on the boards of the Institute for Advanced Study and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She was chairman and remains a director of the Robin Hood Foundation and in 2005 became President of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Marie-Josée Drouin was married to Maestro Charles Dutoit and is presently the wife of Henry Kravis. They donated $15 million to establish the Center for Cardiovascular Health at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City following another $10 million gift to establish the Women's Pavillion at Mount Sinai. They endowed the Chair in Human Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering. They have funded a wing at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and two galleries at the Museum of Modern Art. They support contemporary music and have commissioned a number of works for the New York Philarmonic Orchestra.They also support the Metropolitan Opera and regularly sponsor new productions.
She and her husband reside in their homes in New York City, Southampton, Vail, Colorado and Paris, France.