Bertil Hult

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Bertil Hult (2017)

Bertil Hult (born February 14, 1941 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish entrepreneur , billionaire, founder and owner of the language and travel company EF Education and name holder of the Hult Business School .

Family and education

Bertil Hult was born in 1941 to a lawyer and grew up in Stockholm. Hult got his first job at the age of 16 at the financial services group SEB , where he was used for running errands.

In London , Hult worked for a shipbroker . During this time he learned English . This convinced him that the best way to learn a language is through immersion . He returned to Sweden , continued his education and went to Lund University, which he left after a year.

Career

In 1965 he founded the language school and travel company EF Education in Lund , Sweden.

EF originally started out as an organization providing language travel and study abroad for Swedish secondary school students to travel to England and learn English there. Hult's own experiences with dyslexia convinced him that immersion in foreign cultures was the best way to learn a language.

Hult was EF CEO until 2002 and Chairman of the Board until 2008. Today he is partially retired. Under Bertil Hult's leadership, EF grew into a multi-billion dollar company with more than 40,000 employees in 500 schools and educational programs in 53 different countries.

EF continues to grow today. The company is opening new language schools all over the world, expanding its online language school offering ( EF Englishtown ), placing au pairs with American families and coordinating school trips and international exchange programs. EF cooperates with a business school ( Hult International Business School ; formerly Arthur D. Little School of Management), which was named after Bertil Hult.

Private

Today, Hult is the Swede with the eleventh largest fortune (around four billion dollars ) and lives in Lucerne , Switzerland . He is married and has four children, all of whom work in the family business. Hult has dyslexia  .

According to media reports, Hult provided the wedding couple with his private jet - a Dassault Falcon 7X  - as well as his private luxury yacht and later his holiday home in the US state of Colorado for the honeymoon of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden . He owns several holiday homes in the fishing village of Torekov in southern Sweden .

In 2006, Hult was named International Sweden of the Year. In 2012 Bertil Hult received the Lucia Trade Award from the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce for his contribution to promoting free trade between Sweden and the USA .

In 2014, Bertil Hult was a World Entrepreneurship Forum awardee. The award recognizes exceptional entrepreneurs for their influence in society and their ability to change the world.

Charity work

In addition to EF, Bertil Hult has worked with charities that fight drug abuse and promote education for dyslexic people. In 1993, Hult was a founding member of the Mentor Foundation. This is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit and non-political organization that supports initiatives and research in the field of drug abuse prevention. Hult has been chairman of the board since the foundation was founded. He is currently their trustee.

Hult also supports the Bertil Hult Prize. For the first time in 2003 and annually thereafter, this award is given to the Swedish school, which offers the best support for dyslexics.

Bertil Hult also sponsors the Hult Prize, a US $ 1 million global business school competition sponsored by the Hult International Business School and the Clinton Global Initiative . The Hult family recently founded the EF's Global Classroom Foundation to rebuild primary schools in crisis regions.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Världens största privata utbildningsföretag in: foretagsamheten.se, accessed on April 28, 2011
  2. ^ Sveriges Radio : Sommar i P1 - Bertil Hult , accessed on August 16, 2016.
  3. ↑ Maria Brandner: "Ganska tröttsamt att på lyssna Hult" in Expressen on 6 July 2016 accessed on 16 August 2016th
  4. ^ Education First aims to bridge barriers with exchange. In: bostonglobe.com. February 3, 2013, accessed March 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Company website: Vårt företag , accessed on August 16, 2016.
  6. ↑ Our history. In: ef.com. Retrieved March 13, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Landets främste lyxlirare. In: aftonbladet.se. June 23, 2010, accessed March 13, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Bertil Hult. In: china.org.cn. May 8, 2008, accessed March 13, 2018 .
  9. ^ Opening the world through education. In: ef.com. Retrieved March 13, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Reviews. In: hult.edu. Retrieved March 13, 2018 .
  11. ↑ # 380 Bertil Hult In: Forbes
  12. ↑ Ingrid Askeberg: dyslexics byggde ett språkimperium in Dagens Nyheter of 28 December 2008 called on 16 August 2016th
  13. ↑ L. Simonsson, T. Borchert: Wedding gifts: The bizarre presents for Crown Princess Victoria , in Welt Online , October 22, 2010, accessed on January 6, 2011
  14. ↑ Christian Holmén: Miljardär lånade ut privatjet till Victoria in Expressen from June 22, 2010, accessed on August 16, 2016
  15. ↑ Christel Persson: Fiskeläget som blev ett skånskt lyxghetto . In: Expressen , August 28, 2012, accessed March 29, 2017
  16. ↑ Fredrik Sjöshult: Miljardärens sommarhusportfölj: 117 miljoner . In: Expressen , November 10, 2011, accessed March 29, 2017
  17. ^ Company Overview of EF Education First AG. In: bloomberg.com. Retrieved March 13, 2018 .
  18. ^ Lucia Trade Award. In: prnewswire.com. December 4, 2012, accessed March 13, 2018 .
  19. ^ Winner of the "Entrepreneur for the World" award 2014. In: prnewswire.com. October 22, 2014, accessed March 13, 2018 .
  20. ^ Crown Princess presents the Bertil Hult Prize. In: kungahuset.se. 2009, accessed March 13, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Live classes and interactive lessons online. In: englishlive.ef.com. Retrieved March 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hult, Bertil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm