After leaving law school, she was an associate at the
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett law firm for four years, before working for telecommunications billionaire
John Kluge in the 1980s, Bronfman, E.L. Rothschild LP and Christies International. She has also served on the Boards of Directors of
Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation and General Instruments, Inc.
Politics Rothschild is involved in policy and social issues, including addressing income inequalities, support of small and medium businesses, micro-finance, business ethics, and women's rights. From 1993 to 1995, Rothschild served on President Bill Clinton's National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council. From 1998 to 2000, she served on the US Secretary of Energy's advisory committee. Although Rothschild was a major fundraiser for
Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid, she transferred her support to Republican candidate
John McCain when
Barack Obama beat Clinton, becoming a minor celebrity on cable television at the time for attacking Obama in a series of interviews. In the summer of 2016, she hosted a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton's
2016 presidential campaign. In 2012, Rothschild co-chaired the
Henry Jackson Society's Initiative (HJI) for Inclusive Capitalism task force, which aimed to mitigate the consequences of the
2008 financial crisis and associated protest movement,
Occupy Wall Street. Rothschild said, Rothschild founded the day-long Conference of Inclusive Capitalism in London on May 27, 2014, with the aim of adjusting the capitalist system to work for more people, and included an opening address by Prince Charles and guest speaker Bill Clinton. The second conference took place in London on June 26, 2015. In 2006, she was appointed as a member of the UN Advisors Group on Inclusive Financial Services. She serves as chairman of the board for the American Patrons of the Tate Gallery, FAI, and the International Advisory Board of Columbia University School of Law. She is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations (USA),
Chatham House (UK), the
Institute for Strategic Studies (UK), the board of the
Peterson Institute for International Economics, the board of the
Alfred Herrhausen Society of International Dialogue of
Deutsche Bank, the International Advisory Council of Asia House (UK), and the
Foreign Policy Association (USA). ==Personal life==