Who is Bill Ackman’s wife, Neri Oxman – who was once linked to Brad Pitt? The former MIT professor was accused of plagiarism, met Jeffrey Epstein through her work, and married her spouse in 2019

Apr 9 , 2025

Neri Oxman, former MIT professor, is the wife of billionaire investor Bill Ackman. Photos: @BillAckman/X; Neri Oxman/Facebook

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is in the spotlight for his comments about Donald Trump’s trade tariffs – but his wife is no stranger to controversy either ... meet Neri Oxman

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman has said the US risks heading into an “economic nuclear winter” as a result of Donald Trump’s tariff policy roll-out, as reported by CNBC.

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman made headlines for calling out President Donald Trump’s “disproportionate tariffs”. Photo: Reuters

“By placing massive and disproportionate tariffs on our friends and our enemies alike and thereby launching a global economic war against the whole world at once, we are in the process of destroying confidence in our country as a trading partner,” Ackman wrote on X.

“The consequences for our country and the millions of our citizens who have supported the president – in particular low-income consumers who are already under a huge amount of economic stress – are going to be severely negative. This is not what we voted for,” he added. “Alternatively, we are heading for a self-induced, economic nuclear winter, and we should start hunkering down,” he said.

The 58-year-old hedge fund manager is one of a growing number of billionaires turning on Trump. But what do we know about his wife, Neri Oxman – who’s a controversial figure in her own right?

Neri Oxman is an American-Israeli designer and ex-professor

Architect, artist, designer … Neri Oxman. Photo: Neri Oxman/Facebook

Oxman, 49, wears many hats. She is an Israeli-born architect, computational designer and artist who won the Cooper Hewitt Design Award for Interaction Design in 2018, per The New York Times. She’s also a former MIT professor whose work has reportedly caught the eye of Björk and Brad Pitt.

She has worked on over 150 scientific publications and inventions and her work has been included in the permanent collections of museums including the Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, MAK Museum of Applied Arts, FRAC Collection for Art and Architecture, and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, to name a few. In 2016, she was named as a cultural leader by the World Economic Forum. She is the founder and CEO of Oxman, a company that invents “multi-scale products and environments through radical ways of thinking and making that flow across hardware, software, and wetware”, according to its website.

“She’s the most beautiful person I’ve ever met,” Ackman said of his wife on the Lex Fridman Podcast. “I mean that from the centre of her soul – she’s the most caring, warm, considerate, thoughtful person I’ve ever met.”

Who is Bill Ackman’s wife, Neri Oxman – who was once linked to Brad Pitt? The former MIT professor was accused of plagiarism, met Jeffrey Epstein through her work, and married her spouse in 2019

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is in the spotlight for his comments about Donald Trump’s trade tariffs – but his wife is no stranger to controversy either ... meet Neri Oxman

Neri Oxman is an American-Israeli designer and ex-professor

She coined the phrase “material ecology”