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Lawrence Frankopan
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Lawrence Frankopan, born 29 December 1977, is a sports agent and businessman in London. He worked for many years at IMG and managed several world famous sportsmen. He was then Head of Lagardère Unlimited (UK), in London.He is founder and CEO of StarWing Sports Management, now managing, i.a., the tennis icon Chrisse Evert among a host of top level athletes around the world.</ref> Early life Lawrence Doimi de Lupis Frankopan was born in London in 1977. His father is Prince Louis de Frankopan, Count Doimi de Lupis, born in Split in 1939, a member of the Croatian and the Italian nobility. Lawrence's father came to England from Croatia after the Second World War to attend a boarding school and then go to Oxford University. His father is a Barrister, and a member of Middle Temple and a businessman. Her mother, Ingrid Detter de Frankopan, is a distinguished Professor Emeritus at Stockholm University, sometime Fellow of LMH and of St. Antony's College, Oxford and sometime Adviser on International Law to H.H. John Paul II, professor of international law, double doctor, D.Phil. (Oxon), Jur.Dr.(Stockholm), Lic. en droit (Paris) and Dipl. Diritto Europo (Turin), Barrister at Lincoln's Inn. He has two sisters, Paola and Christina, and two brothers; Peter and Nicholas, Princes Frankopan, Counts Doimi de Lupis. Lawrence’s eldest sister, Paola, is married to Lord Nicholas Windsor, son of H.R.H. the Duke and Duchess of Kent. . Lawrence's sister Christina is an investment banker, who is married to Patrick Nicholson, Head of Communications for Caritas Internationalis in the Vatican. Lawrence's eldest brother Peter, D.Phil. (Oxon); M.Phil. (Oxon); M.A. (Cantab), is a historian and author of 'The First Crusade'. He is Director of Oxford University's Centre for Byzantine Research. He is a University Lecturer at the Faculty of Modern Languages and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford University. He is a Governor of Wellington College and trustee of the World Monuments Fund. Together with his wife, he founded Cambridge University's Frankopan Directorship for Gender Studies. He is married to Jessica Sainsbury, daughter of Sir Timothy Sainsbury, and they had four children. Lawrence’s other brother, Nicholas, M.A. (Oxon); M.Phil. (Cantab); MBA (Columbia), is an investment banker in London. 
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