Meet the woman who donated Rs 1634522476800 in charity, not Nita Ambani, Sudha Murty, Roshni Nadar, Rohini Nilekani, she is…, her business is.

MacKenzie Scott is an American novelist, philanthropist, and ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the second-richest person in the world with a net worth of $238. 3 billion, as of December 19, 2024.

While you may have read about the likes of Nita Ambani, Sudha Murty, Roshni Nadar, Rohini Nilekani, and other businesswomen and business leaders’ wives generously donating money to various charities, today we take a look a MacKenzie Scott, an American billionaire author and philanthropist who has given away a whopping $19.2 billion in charity since 2019.

In a blog post on Wednesday, Mackenzie Scott acknowledged another $2 billion in donations, bringing the total amount she has donated in the last five years to a staggering $19.2 billion (around Rs 1634522476800).

Scott also revealed new information about how she was managing her wealth, saying she had directed advisors to invest her funds into “mission-aligned ventures.” Most of the grants she made in 2024, she said, went to bolstering economic security and opportunities.

“I’ve asked the investment team helping me manage the assets I’m working to give away to source funds and companies focused on for-profit solutions to these challenges,” she wrote. That is in contrast to “withdrawing funds from a bank account, or from a stock portfolio that increases the wealth and influence of leaders who already have it.”

Who is Mackenzie Scott?

MacKenzie Scott is an American novelist, philanthropist, and ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the second-richest person in the world with a net worth of $238. 3 billion, as of December 19, 2024.

Most of Scott’s wealth comes from shares of Amazon that she received when she divorced Bezos. According to reports, Mackenzie owns a 4% stake in Amazon. She has a net worth of $31.7 billion, even after donating heavily to charitable causes for years. According to Forbes Real Time Billionaires List, Mackenzie Scott is currently the 54th richest person in the world.

In 2023, Forbes named Scott its list of world’s 100 most powerful women, and before that, she was named as one of Time’s 100 most influential people in 2020.

Mackenzie Scott education

Born on April 7, 1970 in San Francisco, California, Mackenzie Scott graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut in 1988, and later earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Princeton University, where she studied under Nobel Laureate in Literature Toni Morrison.

Morrison had once described her as “one of the best students I’ve ever had in my creative writing classes.”