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Bill Browder

CEO Hermitage Capital Management, Author and Head of Global Magnitsky Campaign

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Biography

William Browder was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005, when he was denied entry to the country and declared “a threat to national security” for exposing corruption in Russian state-owned companies. In 2008, Mr. Browder’s lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, uncovered a massive fraud committed by Russian government officials that involved the theft of US $230 million of state taxes. Sergei testified against state officials involved in this fraud and was subsequently arrested, imprisoned without trial and systematically tortured. He spent a year in prison under horrific detention conditions, was repeatedly denied medical treatment, and died in prison on November 16, 2009, leaving behind a wife and two children. 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, to name a few.

Speech Topics

  • Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice

    Bill Browder takes audiences on the journey from the heady world of finance in New York and London in the 1990s, through his battles with Russian oligarchs in the turbulent landscape of post-Soviet Union Moscow, then to his eventual expulsion from Russia on Putin’s orders. Bill describes a graphic portrait of the Russian government as a criminal enterprise wielding all the power of a sovereign state illuminates his personal transformation from financier to human rights activist, campaigning for justice for his late lawyer and friend. This topic is based on Bill Browder’s 2015 best-selling book Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice.

  • Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath

    When Browder’s young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail in 2009, Bill Browder cast aside his business career and made it his life’s mission to pursue justice for Sergei. That mission was to uncover who had killed Sergei and profited from the $230 million corruption scheme that he exposed. As Browder and his team tracked the money that flowed out of Russia, they discovered that Vladimir Putin himself was one of the beneficiaries of the crime. After Western law-enforcement agencies began freezing the money, Putin retaliated. He will stop at nothing to protect his wealth and power. Freezing Order is a stirring morality tale about how one man can take on one of the most dangerous and ruthless villains in the world. This topic is based on Bill Browder’s 2022 best-selling book Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath.

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