Vera Michalski-Hoffmann (born 5 November 1954) is a Swiss billionaire businesswoman, significant shareholder in Roche Holding[1] and publisher.

She is the president of several publishing houses in Switzerland, France and Poland, grouped together in a holding company, Libella SA, based in Lausanne.

[3][5] Until the age of 20, Vera Hoffmann (of Swiss and Austrian origin)[6] lived in Camargue, at the Tour du Valat research facility, 28 km (17 mi) from Arles.

[8] In 1961, he and Peter Scott, son of the famous South Pole explorer, founded the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

The research centre, now supported by the Hoffman family's MAVA Foundation, has become an important international hub for the conservation and study of Mediterranean wetlands.

Vera studied at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva where she began working on her thesis entitled “Le phénomène des compagnons de route du communisme en France, de 1928 à 1939” (The phenomenon of Communism's fellow travelers in France from 1928 to 1939”).

The idea was to publish writers –essentially of Slavic origin– and to offer fiction (novels, short stories, plays and poetry) as well as non-fiction (essays, documents, eye-witness accounts, personal journal and memoires) bearing witness to critical periods in the history of countries such as Poland and Russia.

The holding now includes Noir sur Blanc, Les Éditions Phébus, Buchet-Chastel and Le Temps Apprivoisé, among others.

[19] Although Michalski is heiress to the significant family fortune of Luc Hoffmann, she says she is careful to keep her publishing business separate from her philanthropic initiatives, notably the Maison de l'écriture (writing house) in Montricher, Switzerland.