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= Fiona Scott Lazareff = Fiona Scott Lazareff is an entrepreneur, publisher, writer, angel investor, sportswoman and pilot. She is editor-in-chief of divento.com, a website devoted to European culture launched by Vivendi Universal in 2001.

Career
Fiona Scott 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.

At 32 she moved to Paris where she raised €650,000 (3,2MF) from financial institutions to create Mediatime France SA, and to launch several publications including the lifestyle magazine Boulevard.

Japanese and Chinese versions of the site were launched in 1992 and 1995 respectively.

Boulevard magazine attracted well-known contributors such as Emmanuel de Brantes[fr], CZ Guest, Yves Pozzo di Borgo, Édouard Carmignac, and talented writers and photographers such as Lucy Yeomans, Diana Geddes, Stephanie Theobald and Lyu Hanabusa.

In September 1991, as founder and editor-in-chief of Boulevard, Scott Lazareff created the Bal des débutantes at the Hôtel Crillon as a publicity stunt, turning Boulevard's annual fashion shoot of young eligible girls dressed in Haute Couture into a live event. She was inspired by the Berkeley Dress Show of London, but she added a modern twist by including Alison Grade, the daughter of Michael Grade and Justine Lévy, daughter of Bernard-Henri Lévy, to a list of young French girls from French aristocratic families. Le Bal des débutantes at the Hôtel Crillon is cited as one of the world’s hottest social events by Forbes Magazine.

Techpreneurs Awards
She is on the Committee of the University Women's Club, and in March 2014 she launched The University Women's Club Techpreneurs Awards to encourage women to found internet or tech-related start ups, as well as to recognise the work of women who have already made a career in technology. The panel of well-known judges of the first edition of the Techpreneur Awards for Women, included Mandeep Singh, co-founder of streethub.com, Debbie Wosskow, founder and chief executive of lovehomeswap.com, Elizabeth Varley, co-founder and chief executive of techhub.com, and Bindi Karia, vice-president accelerator for Silicon Valley Bank. The second edition, sponsored by Baron Marks of Henley-on-Thames, took place at the House of Commons on 10 December 2015.

On 16th January 2018, Scott Lazareff organised the Techpreneurs Awards For Women in the House of Lords, sponsored by Baron Marks of Henley-on-Thames. The prizes were awarded by Matt Hancock Secretary of State.

FCO Campaign
In December 2016 Fiona Scott 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. The Lazareff family were offered no help form the British Embassy in Moscow or in London in their search for Nicolas. As a result Fiona Scott Lazareff started an investigation into the way the FCO reacts to a crisis.

Fiona Scott Lazareff also started a campaign to raise awareness of the importance of the IMEI on mobile devices. Both from the point of view of finding people who go missing and wiping out crime associated with the theft of mobile devices.

On 28 February there was an Adjournment Debate in the House of Commons raising questions about the lack of support given by FCO, to a number of constituents following the disappearance of relatives overseas. The debate was heard in the presence of the FCO's Minister, Harriett Baldwin who agreed to the creation of an All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), with the first meeting taking place on the 14th of March 2018 in which Scott Lazareff recommended that the FCO should have a well publicised, readily available, check list in the even people go missing overseas, that there is help at hand from the FCO at the scene of the disappearance and that travelers are advised to share their IMEI to relatives or friends before travelling.

Personal life
in September 2000, the mother of five launched the Children's Learning Center in Paris. The center promotes bilingualism at an early age in children.

She is married to Alexandre Lazareff[fr], and is Champion de France 2010, 2011 and 2012 in side saddle.

She holds a pilot's licence and carried out her first solo flight in Palm beach on 18 December 1982 and gaining her pilot's license on 12 February 1983.

TV Appearances
Fiona Scott Lazareff made an appearance in the BBC 2 documentary Posh People: Inside Tatler discussing the resurgence in side saddle horse riding. In 2017 she made an appearance on Breakfast TV following the disappearance and death of her son in Moscow to explain the importance of the IMEI number.



Publications

 * Directory of International Asset managers, Macmillan, 1989, ISBN 978-0333494158.


 * Pauper's Paris, co-author Miles Turner, Pan Books, 1997, ISBN 978-0330350228.