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==Early life== Greiner was born in [[Budapest, Hungary]] to a Hungarian father and a Slovak mother.<ref>{{cite news |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/gruff-tough-and-ever-the-patriarch-20040803-gdjh17.html |archive-date=6 December 2021 |access-date=12 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206183217/https://www.smh.com.au/national/gruff-tough-and-ever-the-patriarch-20040803-gdjh17.html |url-status=live |title=Gruff, tough and ever the patriarch |date=3 August 2004 |first=Tony |last=Stephens}}</ref><ref name="Nick Greiner NSW Parl">{{Cite NSW Parliament |id=2037 |name=Mr (Nick) Nicholas Frank Hugo Greiner |former=Yes |access-date=16 June 2019}}</ref> His mother was of half-[[Jews|Jewish]] ancestry and was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp during the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2004-08-03|title=Gruff, tough and ever the patriarch|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/gruff-tough-and-ever-the-patriarch-20040803-gdjh17.html|access-date=2021-04-07|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|language=en}}</ref> His parents subsequently moved to [[Vienna]] before arriving in Australia in the early 1950s. He was educated at [[Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview]] in Sydney's lower North Shore, before graduating with honours in [[Bachelor of Economics|Economics]] at the [[University of Sydney]].<ref name=":0" /> Later he attended [[Harvard Business School]] and achieved an MBA with High Distinction.<ref name=":0" /> After briefly working for an [[Idaho]] timber company, Greiner returned to Australia, where he joined the timber company that his family owned. Greiner has also held the position of Australian chairman of [[British American Tobacco]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/11/1060588325238.html |title=Kathryn follows Nick out of door in protest |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=12 August 2003 |archive-date=5 July 2017 |access-date=7 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705153533/http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/11/1060588325238.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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