Rainer Kensy, Baron of Echlin

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Rainer Kensy, Baron of Echlin (born 25 July 1961 in Speyer) is a German, agricultural economist, finance entrepreneur and nobleman in the Baronage of Scotland.

Family

Baron of Echlin's ancestors [1] were first mentioned in 1296 with the lands of "the of Echline" [2] in the parish of Dalmeny, West Lothian in Edinburghshire, Scotland. They subsequently immigrated to Ireland ("Irish line") and Lithuania (so-called "Scottish line") and ran agriculture and forestry in East Prussia in the 18th and 19th centuries . As a result of the East Prussian Operation (1945), his parents lost all their land and belongings and fled to West Germany. Kensy is the 13th Baron of Echlin and is married to the Norwegian Anne Elisabeth née Patterson. [3]

Career

Baron of Echlin attended the Gymnasium am Kaiserdom. After graduating from high school, he studied agricultural sciences and econometrics at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel and the Technical University of Berlin . In 1983 he became active in the Kiel Corps Palaiomarchia-Masovia. [4]  In 1988 he was deputy local speaker of the KSCV for the Berlin Senior Citizens' Convention (KSCV) . Later he also recorded the ribbons of the Corps Lusatia Leipzig (1985) and the Corps Masovia Königsberg in Potsdam. [4] [5] He finished his studies as a Dipl.-Ing. agr. and Master of Science. [6]

He completed a second degree in finance at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, where he graduated with distinction with a Master of Business Administration. With a dissertation on Japanese corporate structures, he received his doctorate in economics (HSG) from the University of St. Gallen in 1994. [7] He then worked in project management and portfolio management at the Caribbean Development Bank and Crédit Suisse in Barbados and Tokyo. After that , he took on tasks in the area of derivative structuring at Merrill Lynch Germany and Salomon Brothers in London. After working for the Rothschild Bank (Zurich), he headed subsidiaries of the RMF-MAN Investment Group. UBS appointed him Global Head Alternative Investments. As European Co-Head, he headed Bear Stearns asset management in London. A subsidiary of Hottinger & Compagnie elected him to its board of directors (Switzerland). He has been a curriculum board member of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association since 2005. Since 2009 he has been on the board of directors of Echlin AG, a single family office that previously held a stake in Echlin Inc. (NYSE: ECH), [8] [9] and now retired, The Baron of Echlin is only involved in advisory boards of several hedge funds (Secquaero, Bainbridge), a multi-family office [10] and an IT company that deals with IT security, prevention, detection and processing of economic crimes and anti-fraud management in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. [11]  In 2018 he completed the Senior Executive Programme at the University of Oxford.

Social Engagements & Honours

At Mensa International, Baron of Echlin is committed to researching intelligence and identifying and supporting highly gifted children. He sits on the advisory board of philanthropic foundations in Switzerland and the USA. [5]

Since 2007, he has been an honorary knight (since 2018 a legal knight) in the French cooperative of the Order of St. John, and he coordinates the joint French-Swiss-German activities (currently mainly in Madagascar). [12] [13] He supports the development of medical care in rural areas of Haiti and advises the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the country's state pension fund.

Baron of Echlin is also active as chairman of the management board of the Save The Lake Foundation in East Africa. Since 2012, they have been working on an impact project that efficiently clears Lake Victoria of overgrown vegetation so that the lake "gives back" to the local residents, allowing them to fish again and supporting agriculture by modifying and controlling the fermentation process of the overgrown plants so that the plant waste is used to produce fertilizer for local agriculture, which is available to the local population and small-scale industry. The aim is to enable the local population to achieve long-term economic autonomy in this sense. Since 2015, the Save The Lake Foundation has been mandated to carry out a comprehensive biological and engineering restoration of the Nairobi Dam in Nairobi, which is a key problem for the Kibera settlement, the largest slum in East Africa.

Written works

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  1. ↑ Charter Novo Damus dated 7th April 1669 by HM King Charles II
  2. ↑ "Black, G.F.: The Surnames of Scotland; 1946; NY Public Lib.,NYC, p.237" . Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  3. ↑ "Burke's Peerage – The Official Website". burkespeerage.com. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  4. 1 2 Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 114/296; 87/1246
  5. 1 2 Verzeichnis sämtlicher Mitglieder des Corps Masovia 1823 bis 2005. Potsdam 2006
  6. ↑ Master´s Thesis: Possibilities and limitations of time-series-analysis for the identification of instabilities of agricultural markets. Berlin 1986
  7. ↑ Dissertation: Postmodern analysis of Japanese multinational enterprises. St. Gallen 1993
  8. ↑ "Firmengeschichte Echlin Inc" . Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  9. ↑ "Echlin, Inc.: Private Company Information – Businessweek". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  10. ↑ "ATF Group AG". www.atf-ltd.com. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  11. ↑ Kevin Kehl, Rainer Baron Kensy von Echlin. "Helix IT-Solutions | Web & IT-Services". Helix IT-Solutions (in German). Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  12. ↑ Ordre de Saint-Jean – France. "Saint jean France – une présence dans les pays francophones". www.ordredesaintjean.fr. Archived from the original on 2016-11-01. Retrieved 2016-11-11.{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |archiv-bot= ignored (help)
  13. ↑ "JOIN Members explore closer cooperation at AGM in Paris", Johanniter [live], 2016-02-26, retrieved 2016-11-11
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