Miguel Krigsner


Miguel Gellert Krigsner is a Bolivian-Brazilian entrepreneur. He is the president of the Brazilian company O Boticário, the second major cosmetic company in the Southern Hemisphere. Krigsner is also the founder of the Fundação de Proteção à Natureza, one of the main Brazilian environmental NGOs.
He was born in Bolivia into a Jewish family from La Paz. Born to Jacob Krigsner, a Polish Jew, and to Anneliese Krigsner, a German Jew. The Krigsners left Bolivia and moved to Brazil when Miguel was 11 years old, settling in the city of Curitiba.