By Alexander Osipovich
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William Browder: I feel like I have two jobs at the same time.
Photographs by Tony Law |
It’s a bright, cold Thursday morning in London, and William Browder is on the warpath again. The head of Hermitage Capital Management is starting his day with a two-hour media interview. This afternoon he plans to get on the phone with members of British Parliament. And he’ll soon fly to Washington to lobby U.S. senators — all part of a sweeping campaign to avenge what he calls the torture and murder of his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a Moscow jail.
In the meantime, Browder has a couple of hedge funds to manage. Hermitage, which used to be the biggest foreign portfolio investor in Russia, has evolved into a long-short emerging-markets fund manager with investments that span the globe from Asia to the Middle East to Latin...