Bill Browder
The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Bill Browder reads as The Pioneer because he converted personal catastrophe into an entirely new form of financial activism. After Sergei Magnitsky's death, retreat was the expected move. Instead, he designed and drove the global adoption of Magnitsky Act legislation across multiple jurisdictions, working from no template while enduring threats, legal harassment and state-level opposition. The combination of relentless tenacity and creative audacity in uncharted territory is the Pioneer's essence, and Browder embodies it completely.
“I made a vow to his memory, to his family, and to myself that I was going to put aside everything else I was doing, and I was going to use all my time, energy and resources to go after the people who killed him.”
“Everyone said the same thing about the Magniskia Act. Everyone said, there's no way you're ever going to make that happen. I'm one hundred percent sure that we will get these countries to confiscate that money.”
“I've been using the same networks, the same politicians, the same government officials, the same everybody who I'd worked with on the Magnitski Act to try to convince them to confiscate that money to give to Ukraine.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Bill Browder”
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