Teresa Heinz
Teresa F. Heinz ( born October 5, 1938 in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, as Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões - Ferreira) is an American philanthropist and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It is part heir to the Heinz ketchup empire and chairman of the products resulting from the Empire Heinz Family Philanthropies Foundations and The Heinz Endowments. In honor of her late husband Henry John Heinz III (1938-1991) she called the Heinz Awards in life.
His second wife Teresa Heinz is married since 1995 with the five- years younger than John Kerry, the former senator from Massachusetts, presidential candidate in 2004 and since February 1, 2013, Acting Foreign Minister of the United States. For John Kerry's political events, they can also call Teresa Heinz Kerry.
Biography
Teresa Heinz was born to Portuguese parents in Maputo, the then capital of Portuguese East Africa. Her parents are the one who was born in Albergaria- a-Velha, Portugal José Simões - Ferreira Junior doctor (1910-1989) and was born in Maputo Irene Thierstein (1912-1997), whose father Alberto Thierstein (1870-1948) in Valletta, the then British colony of Malta was born and died in Maputo. Your maternal grandmother, Maria Burlo ( ca.1885 - 1940) was in Cairo, who was then born British possession Egypt. In Maputo, Teresa spent most of her childhood. It was not until 1971, after she had married five years with her U.S. husband Henry John Heinz III, she took on its citizenship.
Teresa made the Bachelor of Arts in Romance Languages and Literature (French, Portuguese, Italian) at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1963 she graduated from the Faculty School of Translation and Interpretation, University of Geneva. One of her classmates was Kofi Annan. In Geneva, she also first met her future first husband Henry John Heinz III, who in 1962 for a summer at the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) worked there. Teresa Heinz is fluent in English, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese and her mother worked after graduation as a full-time translator for the UN Trusteeship Council in New York.
On February 5, 1966, she married in Pittsburgh billionaire and future Republican senator of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania Henry John Heinz III, the grandson and heir of the founder of the Heinz ketchup empire Henry John Heinz. The marriage produced three sons Henry John Heinz went IV (1967 ), Andre Heinz (born 1970 ) and Christopher Drake Heinz (born 1973 ) produced. After her husband died in a plane crash in April 1991 killed, she inherited a large part of its assets; their total assets are up to one billion U.S. dollars estimated at $ 500 million, which she was wealthier than her future husband, John Kerry.
In 1993 he designed the Heinz Heinz Award in memory of her late husband. Since 1994, the awards are of the Foundation Heinz Family Philanthropies (not established by Teresa Heinz ) annually to Americans in the arts and humanities, the environment, politics, " the human condition " (human condition) and " the technology, the economy and employment " forgiven; the prize money is 250,000 U.S. dollars ( as of 2008). In 1995, she was named by the magazine Utne Reader as one of 100 visionaries in the U.S. ( " people who could change your life " ), because, as vice chairman ( vice - chairman of the board) of the U.S. organization "Environmental Defense Fund" the 've left overtook dichotomy between environmental protection and economic development behind it. In the same year, Heinz announced a donation of $ 20 million - at that time one of the highest donations for the environment at all - for the creation of the named also after her husband H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, the leading representative bringing together of business, government, science and environmental protection in order to develop a mutually acceptable, scientifically based environmental policy.
On May 26, 1995 married the avowed adherent of the Republican political campaigns once as a graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace designated empty promise in Nantucket in Massachusetts Democratic politician John F. Kerry. For him, it was the second marriage. She decided to keep her previous name Teresa Heinz. Only for political events they can announce Teresa Heinz Kerry with, to make a connection to her husband. End, it announced in 2004:
My legal name is Teresa Heinz quietly. Teresa Heinz Kerry is my name. . . for politics. Just so people do not ask me questions about so and so is so and so 's wife or this and that. Teresa Heinz is what I've been all my growing- up life, adult life, more than any other name. And it's the name of my boys, you know?. . . So that's my legal name and that's my office name, my Pittsburgh name.
Heinz is chairman of the charitable foundations of their family Heinz Family Philanthropies and The Heinz Endowments. After Teresa Heinz is amongst the Teresa and H. John Heinz III Foundation mitbenannt, whose activities include the award of the designated also by Teresa Heinz Scholarship Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research heard under Doctor students at seven well-known U.S. universities ( Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Harvard, Penn State, Princeton, Stanford and Yale ), eight master's theses and dissertations in the field of policy-relevant environmental protection promote (2006 /2007). At the prestigious Clark University professor is funded under the title Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy.
For their charity and their commitment Heinz Award of twelve universities with an honorary doctorate, including Clark ( 1996), University of Massachusetts Boston ( 1998), Carnegie Mellon (2000) and University of Massachusetts Dartmouth ( 2007). In 2003, Heinz the Albert Schweitzer Gold Medal for Humanitarianism world for their commitment to protecting the environment and for health care and education. Since 2001 she has been an active member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.