Ivanka Trump

Ivana Marie "Ivanka" Trump (born October 30, 1981) is an American businesswoman who is the second-born child of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States and his first wife, Ivana, as well as the eldest of his two daughters.

Ivana Marie Trump was born on October 30, 1981, in Manhattan, New York City, as the second child and only daughter of Donald Trump and his first wife, Czech-American model and professional skier Ivana.

Her father has German and Scottish ancestry.

For most of her life, she has been nicknamed "Ivanka", a Slavic diminutive form of her first name Ivana.

Her parents divorced in 1990 when she was nine years old.

She has two brothers, Donald Jr. and Eric, a half-sister, Tiffany, and a half-brother, Barron.

She attended Christ Church and the Chapin School in Manhattan until age 15 when she switched to Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut.

When Trump was attending boarding school as a teenager, she began modeling "on weekends and holidays and absolutely not during the school year," according to her late mother, Ivana.

In May 1997, she was featured on the cover of Seventeen which ran a story on "celeb moms & daughters".

After graduating from Choate in 2000, Trump attended Georgetown University for two years before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania, from which she graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in economics in 2004.

She was featured on the cover of Stuff in August 2006 and again in September 2007.

In 2007, Trump formed a partnership with Dynamic Diamond Corp., the company of diamond vendor Moshe Lax, to create Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry, a line of diamond and gold jewelry sold at her first flagship retail store in Manhattan.

She was the first Jewish member of a first family, having converted before marrying her husband, Jared Kushner, in 2009.

After graduating from Wharton, her father's alma mater, Trump briefly worked for Forest City Ratner.

As Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions of The Trump Organization, she was charged with the domestic and global expansion of the company's real estate interests.

Her brand was named "Launch of the Year' in 2010 by Footwear News. Trump's brand went on to win other awards. In December 2012, members of 100 Women in Hedge Funds elected Trump to their board. Her company eventually grew to over $500 million in sales annually. Trump closed down the company and separated herself from her business affiliations at the Trump Organization after she moved to DC to serve as a senior advisor to her father in the White House.

Between 2010 and 2018 Trump was also a paid consultant for The Trump Organization.

This "non-employee" dual status has been questioned while reviewing taxes and financial disclosures.

In November 2011, her flagship moved from Madison Avenue to 109 Mercer Street, a larger space in the SoHo district.

Celebrities were spotted wearing her jewelry including Jennifer Lopez on the cover of Glamour and Rihanna on the cover of W Magazine.

In February 2012, Trump led the Request for Proposal (RFP) with the GSA, resulting in the final selection of The Trump Organization to develop the historic Old Post Office (Washington, D.C.).

Ivanka Trump's flagship store on Mercer Street was reported to be closed in October 2015, and her brand was available at various retail locations including Trump Tower, Hudson's Bay, and fine-jewelry stores.

She also had her own line of fashion items available in department stores..

Her brand faced criticism for using rabbit fur and was involved in a design infringement lawsuit with Aquazzura Italia SRL, which was later settled.

Ivanka Trump-brand shoes were supplied by Chengdu Kameido Shoes and Hangzhou HS Fashion.

In 2015, the Accessories Council Excellence Awards recognized Trump with the Breakthrough Award, presented by designer Carolina Herrera.

She then oversaw the $200-million conversion of the historic building into a luxury hotel, which opened in 2016.

Soon after joining the Trump Organization in an executive position, she started her jewelry, shoe, and apparel lines which were covered in magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Forbes Life, Golf Magazine, Town & Country, and Vogue.

Between March and July 2016, Trump applied for 36 trademarks in China.

She was a senior advisor in his administration (2017–2021), and also was the director of the Office of Economic Initiatives and Entrepreneurship.

Trump was an executive vice president of her family-owned Trump Organization.

She was also a boardroom judge on her father's TV show, The Apprentice.

Starting in March 2017, Trump left the Trump Organization to become a senior adviser in her father's presidential administration alongside Jared Kushner.

Seven were approved between her father's inauguration in January 2017 and Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit in the U.S. in April.

Three provisional trademarks for handbags, jewelry, and spa services were granted on the day Xi dined with President Trump and his family at Mar-a-Lago.

According to a trademark lawyer, the process usually takes 18 to 24 months.

A Chinese government spokesman said that "the government handles all trademark applications equally."

The Washington Post reported in 2017, “an astounding 258 trademark applications were lodged under variations of Ivanka, Ivanka Trump and similar- sounding Chinese characters between Nov 10 and the end of last year...

While serving in the White House, she continued to operate her clothing brand business until July 2018, which raised ethics concerns, specifically conflicts of interest.

She was part of the president's inner circle prior to becoming an official employee in his administration.