Five years ago Mohamad Fahed was a Palestinian refugee with limited educational prospects. Now he is studying at University College London thanks to a remarkable scholarship scheme set up by private equity executive Patrick Smulders, a managing partner at Bregal Freshstream, and his wife.
Smulders was featured as a giver on this year's Extra Mile list for the 40 in finance that do the most to help make the world a better place. Here Fahed tells of the "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" that took him from a refugee settlement in Lebanon to Eton College.
