Many of the world’s most successful business leaders use their massive wealth to address global challenges. These businessmen have launched education, healthcare, and anti-poverty campaigns that have left a lasting impact. The following is a list of business leaders who are known for their huge philanthropy.
Bill Gates
Bill Gates is one of the founders of Microsoft and now concentrates on global development. He has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to combat diseases such as polio and malaria, promote sanitation, and drive education expansion globally.
Warren Buffett
The legendary investor, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, made a promise to donate over 99% of his wealth. For years, Warren Buffett has channelled billions of dollars of company stock to the Gates Foundation and other family foundations.
MacKenzie Scott
After her divorce from the founder of Amazon, MacKenzie Scott has emerged as one of the most influential and dynamic philanthropists in history. She works in a different way, providing hundreds of non-profit organizations with multi-million dollar, unrestricted grants in their areas of interest, expertise, and public health service.
Michael Bloomberg
The late, great, and famous Mr. Bloomberg has left behind billions of dollars in many respects. Through his foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, he actively supports public health, environmental, government innovation, arts education, and historic preservation initiatives.
Azim Premji
As one of the biggest philanthropists in Asia, the tech tycoon turned Wipro into a global software powerhouse. Azim Premji joined the Giving Pledge as the first Indian to donate a majority of his company’s economic shares to his foundation for public education.
Shiv Nadar
Shiv Nadar is the founder of HCL Technologies and has been working towards reshaping education in India through philanthropy. He has established the best universities, engineering colleges, and free residential schools for talented rural children of the underprivileged through the Shiv Nadar Foundation.
Michael Dell
The founder of Dell Technologies and his wife, Susan, have set up a foundation to donate billions of dollars to causes around the world. Their philanthropic efforts are strongly supported by a commitment to issues of child health, family stability, and the quality of urban education in the United States and abroad.
George Soros
The legendary hedge fund expert is the founder of the Open Society Foundations, one of the world’s largest networks for democratic development. He has contributed billions of dollars to the causes of human rights, social justice, higher education, and independent journalism.
Chuck Feeney
Duty Free Shoppers’ co-founder is the pioneer of the concept “giving while living. Chuck Feeney spent all his billions of dollars, leaving behind a legacy of the entirety of his wealth through Atlantic Philanthropies to global health, higher education, and human rights.
Li Ka shing
As one of the influential businessmen in Asia, the founder of CK Hutchison Holdings established his own foundation for healthcare and education. Billions of dollars have been donated to build universities, fund medical research facilities, and give immediate disaster relief all over the world by Li Ka-shing.
