- Source of Wealth: Investments
- Age: 55
- Marital Status: Married (Natasha Bacigalupo)
- Full Name: Dirk Edward Ziff
- Nationality: American
- Date of Birth: 1965
- Occupation: Businessman, Investor
- Education: Harvard University, Columbia University
Dirk Edward Ziff has an estimated net worth of $4.8 billion. He is one of the Ziff Brothers (along with Robert and Daniel) who inherited a family fortune in 1994. Their grandfather, William Bernard Ziff Sr., co-founded the company publishing company, Ziff Davis, in 1927. Their late father, William Bernard Ziff Jr., built up the company that publishes PC Magazine and Car and Driver. The popular publisher of technology magazines between 1970s and 1980s, it was sold for $1.4 billion to Forstmann Little Company in 1994 after the siblings refused to take over the company.
Most of Ziff’s fortune started when he and his brothers decided to invest their inheritance to debt, equities, private equity, commodity, real estate and hedge funds in the U.S. and London through their Ziff Brothers Investments (ZBI). He also formed his own family office, Ziff Capital Partners, in 2015. The brothers are also reportedly investing with employees formerly at their hedge funds.
Dirk Ziff earned his B.A. in Prior to working with ZBI, he had work experiences in the publishing and broadcasting industries. He was a board member of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Zearn and The Weinstein Company as well as the .