- Family
- Youth and studies
- Cross the pacific
- Adventure Ecology
- Author
- The lost explorer
- The future
- References
David Mayer de Rothschild (1978) is an adventurer and ecologist who has been recognized worldwide for being a Young World Leader, an award granted by the World Economic Forum, and an emerging explorer of one of the most prestigious scientific publications in the world, the National Geographic.
He won the 2008 UK Kids Choise Awards Greenie Award for his efforts in providing documentary material and engaging children and youth with climate change issues. He was also named in 2009 as a "Climate Hero", a distinction awarded by the United Nations.
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His life has been surrounded by challenges trying to make the world aware of the threats of climate change. Among her exploits can be mentioned crossing Antarctica skiing or sailing from San Francisco to Sydney in a boat made of 11,000 plastic bottles.
Family
The environmentalist and adventurer is the son of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, who belongs to the prestigious Rothschild family of England, and of Victoria Lou Schott, of American origin.
His middle name "Mayer" honors the founder of what would become the family banking empire, Mayer Amschel Rothschild. David is the youngest son. He has a brother, Anthony de Rothschild, and a sister, Jessica de Rothschild.
His father is undoubtedly an important figure in England, as he was President of The Economist, Director of De Beers, partner of IBM UK and Governor of the London School of Economics, among other positions.
Youth and studies
David Mayer, who is the heir to a large fortune from his father, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, one of London's most influential bankers, began his studies at Collingham College.
His fondness for horse riding was famous since his early adolescence. However, she later recognized that there were other things besides her love of this sport and thus undertook several studies.
He subsequently enrolled at Oxford Brookes where he obtained his BA in Political Science and Information Systems. At the age of 24, he entered the College of Naturopathic Medicine, in London, where he would become an Advanced Diploma in Natural Medicine.
Cross the pacific
The English adventurer knows that for the world to become aware of the amount of waste we produce in the world, not only is talking enough, it is necessary to act.
Well, that was what he set out to do in one of his adventures: to cross what is known as the great eastern patch (the great eastern patch), which is a large portion of sea covered by plastic bottles and whose dimension is calculated even at something greater than the United States itself.
The objective of this expedition was to spread a message so that people know and see the need for a change. Mayer de Rothschild does not seek gratuitous notoriety, although he knows that behind his informal style is the power of his family.
Adventure Ecology
As passionate about new challenges and projects that help change the mentality about the planet, David Mayer de Rothschild began to direct Adventure Ecology, a non-governmental organization that supports projects around the issue of the environment, and which helped him finance his project called the Plastiki Expedition, crossing the great eastern patch.
The purpose of Adventure Ecology is to provide educational and interesting content for children, who today have the power to change many things in the future.
Author
Among David Mayer de Rothschild's efforts to envision a different world is also the fact of writing books and forewords for different publications. One of his best-known books, released in 2007, is The Live Earth's Global Warming Survival Manual: 77 Essential Skills for Stopping Climate Change.
He also served as an editor on the book Earth Matters: An Ecology Encyclopedia, and wrote the foreword to the book True Green Kids: 100 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet.
The lost explorer
Mayer de Rothschild's new fashion and style brand launched in 2015, The Lost Explorer, aims to be self-sustaining; a small company, without large capital and with few employees, which was born to create unique products and the stories behind each one of them, of the communities, so that people end up falling even more in love with nature.
The first products were jackets and pants made from organic cotton and hemp. The company also has bags and backpacks alluding to travel, landscapes and people who enjoy nature and learning about different ways of life and cultures.
The company sells cosmetic products to cope with the low temperatures and a mezcal produced in Mexico, grown in San Pablo Huixtepec, in Oaxaca, by a teacher who has been producing it for twenty years.
The challenges of The Lost Explorer are great because they know that they must fight with some consciences that they do not know about the issue of climate change. It is expected that in 10 years the brand will already be positioned in the world market.
The future
David Mayer de Rothschild's capacity for entrepreneurship is notorious. It is not fortuitous that he is the son of one of the main London bankers, as David denotes confidence and business ability, like his father.
Although he took his own path away from finance and large corporations, he has left traces over the years so that we do not destroy nature.
His travels and adventures always carry messages, his new projects benefit many communities. Mayer de Rothschild sees a promising future with his company The Lost Explorer.
He even sees himself in the future, in ten years or more, living in the fields and growing his own organic food. When you see the photos that circulate on the internet, you can see a calm and confident spirit.
True to his desire for adventure, he always dresses casually and wears long hair and beard. Due to his physical attractiveness, the pink press has said on several occasions that he had romances with Cameron Díaz and with model Annabel Horsey.
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- Peláez, R. (2016). The billionaire who quit banking to be an environmentalist. Recovered from revistavanityfair.es
- Chávez, B. (2018). The latest adventure of billionaire David Mayer de Rothschild. Recovered from elpais.com
- Wikipedia (2018). David Mayer de Rothschild. Recovered from en.wikipedia.org