Fiona Scott Lazareff
British magazine editor and women's activist
Fiona Scott Lazareff is an activist and has created various campaigns to support social justice and women's entrepreneurship in technology.
Career
Lazareff began her career working as an economist for Carr Sebag where she launched “International Strategy” a monthly newsletter on international asset management in 1980. In 1981 she moved to Hong Kong to work for WI Carr and Hoare Govett as a financial analyst and in 1982 she moved to New York to work for Samuel Montagu.
She then moved to Paris where she raised €650,000 (3,2MF) from financial institutions to create Mediatime France SA, and to launch several publications including, in 1990, the English-language lifestyle magazine Boulevard. She also co-founded the Crillon Debutantes Ball, a fashion show in which young aristocratic women appeared.
Lazareff is currently editor-in-chief and majority shareholder of Divento, a website devoted to European culture launched by Vivendi Universal in 2001.
Notable Campaigns
Right2Justice.co.uk
Lazareff started campaigning in 2019 to reform the legal system in England and Wales. Having had first-hand experience in the courts as a litigant in person, she launched Right2Justice to expose the problems that LIPs face and to propose ways of equalising the playing field.
FCO Campaign
In December 2016 Lazareff lost her son, Nicolas in Moscow when he was drugged and robbed and dumped in a remote suburb of the city. It was -15° and he died of hypothermia.
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