Early Life
Robert Louis-Dreyfus was born in Paris. He was a great grandson of Leopold Dreyfus, founder of the Louis-Dreyfus Group, which had began buying and selling wheat in the Alsace region a century earlier, and rapidly diversified into shipping, oil and other commodities.
Robert Louis-Dreyfus was not an exceptional scholar, but he excelled at poker, winning considerable amounts of money from his friends at the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris. In 1967, he spent time at a kibbutz and was involved in the Six Day War. He later secured a place at Harvard Business School with a presentation about his experiences during the war. He spent the early years of his working life mentored by Siegmund Warburg, in the family business of the Louis-Dreyfus Group.
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