Penny Pritzker, $3.1 Billion
American politician Penny Pritzker served as the Secretary of Commerce between 2013 and 2017. And rightfully so. After all, who’d have a better insight into economic growth and managing international trade than someone with experience in the field?
Pritzker is an economics graduate with an additional MBA who quickly became the chairperson at Superior Bank of Chicago. Fast forward two decades, she even started a real estate investment management firm from the ground up and a venture capitalist firm named PSP Capital Partners. She is one of the 11 billionaires in her extended family and the only one we know to have served in the White House.