Forbes

27. LEN BLAVATNIK

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$18.3  SELF-MADE SCORE: (

BILLION SOURCE: DIVERSIFIE­D AGE: 62 RESIDENCE: LONDON PHILANTHRO­PY SCORE: In November 2018 the Sovietborn, U.S.-educated billionair­e pledged $200 million through his foundation to Harvard Medical School, the school’s largest gift ever. It follows multimilli­ondollar gifts to Oxford, U Penn, Columbia and Stanford. Blavatnik and partners bought former Soviet state-owned oil company TNK and sold it to Rosneft in 2013. He acquired Warner Music Group in 2011 and engineered the creation of multinatio­nal chemical company LyondellBa­sell in 2007.

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