Experience: Joyce Reuben was born in Teheran in 1949 and has Iraqi-Jewish heritage. She attended an American missionary school, and then, at the age of fifteen, she moved to France where her parents resided. After graduating from Finch College in Manhattan in 1972, she moved to London to attend an interior decoration program. While there, she met her husband, who was in the real estate business. Thereafter she began to refurbish apartments in prime locations. Reuben and her husband created a company which grew to become the second most successful in the Estate Gazette's property list. Reuben's family ran the first successful western metals-trading company in the USSR in the 1990's. These were very interesting times. The Iron Curtain had totally oppressed this rich and enterprising nation and she was a witness to their awakening on a very personal level. Philanthropy is another major interest for Reuben. Her family's donation to the Great Ormond Street Hospital has made it the largest children's cancer hospital in Europe. The Royal Marsden Cancer Hospital, The Nancy Reuben Breast Cancer Hospital, and the Mayo Clinic are also recipients of the Reubens' donations. Reuben is also a patron of the Tate and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.