After being unceremoniously booted out of Russia in 2005 for lifting the lid on widespread corruption and the beating to death of his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, in a Moscow jail in 2009, Bill Browder vowed to make it his life’s mission to pursue justice.

Since then his anti-corruption advocacy work has led to 34 countries around the world introducing legislation — so-called Magnitsky Acts — to freeze the assets and bar visas for human rights violators. The number of countries continues to grow.