Bill Browder

Bill Browder is a financier, political activist, and CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, and investment advisor to the Hermitage Fund, which was formerly the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia. In 2008, Mr. Browder’s lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was arrested, imprisoned, and tortured. He died in prison on November 16, 2009. Since then, Mr. Browder has sought justice outside of Russia and started a global campaign for governments around the world to impose targeted visa bans and asset freezes on human rights abusers and highly corrupt officials. The United States was the first to impose these targeted sanctions with the passage of the Sergei Magnitsky Accountability Act in 2012, followed by the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act in 2016. Since then, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Baltic states, the European Union, and most recently Australia have passed their own versions of the Magnitsky Act. Mr. Browder is currently working to have similar legislation passed in other countries worldwide, including New Zealand and Japan.