Ron Bruder

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Bruder at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in 2012

Ron Bruder is an

Westchester County, New York
.

Background

Childhood

Born in

optometrist and his mother a remedial reading teacher. While working as an encyclopedia salesman at age 17, Bruder created a new, more efficient method for selling them, by hiring "economically disadvantaged mothers to do phone solicitations and employed their children to stuff envelopes through doorways all over Brooklyn."[3]

At the age of 16, Bruder enrolled at

Iona College.[5]

Career

Ron Bruder worked as a real estate developer for more than 30 years, and his earliest real estate activity involved converting an "electric generating plant in lower Manhattan to residential use." He created The Brookhill Group, a real estate company that built and turned around shopping centers and reclaimed

brownfields. From there, he went on to found a "medical technology company and an oil-and-gas business, and he redeveloped a number of shopping malls".[3][6]

It was after this that he started working with brownfields in partnership with Dames and Moore, a multibillion-dollar engineering company. Bruder invented a method of encouraging investment in tainted properties by capping clean-up costs and "securitizing the debt", which enabled The Brookhill Group to become "one of the largest buyers of distressed properties in the U.S."[3] The group quickly obtained properties in more than 21 states.[7]

The

CNN News

Bruder funded the creation of the foundation. Since its establishment in 2002, EFE has grown to become a network of locally-run and staffed affiliate organizations located across the Middle East and North Africa and supported by capacity-building nonprofits in the United States, the UAE, and Europe. In order to expand within each of the network's countries of operation, Bruder partnered with "local companies that provide funding and agree to hire a set number of graduates from his training programs". The first Middle Eastern affiliate, EFE-Jordan, was founded in Jordan in 2005, and the second, EFE-Palestine, in the Gaza Strip in 2006.[3][8] They were followed by the creation of EFE-Egypt, EFE-Morocco, EFE-Yemen, EFE-Tunisia, EFE-Algeria, EFE-United Arab Emirates and EFE-Saudi Arabia.

Bruder has become a major voice in the conversation on youth unemployment in the Middle East and North Africa. He has served as a delegate of the Council on Foreign Relations to the Jeddah Economic Forum, and a contributor to the US-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar. He is frequently invited to share EFE's best practices at major international conferences and fora and in the media, including the

Clinton Global Initiative,[12]
World Economic Forum and the United Nations, among others.

At the World Economic Forum Meeting of New Champions in 2012, Bruder was named Global Social Entrepreneurs of the Year by the Schwab Foundation.

Anne Frank Center for his contributions to world education.[5]

References

  1. ISBN 9780470531754
    . Retrieved June 16, 2011.
  2. ^
    TIME. Archived from the original
    on April 24, 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2011.
  3. ^
    CNN Money
    . Retrieved June 17, 2011.
  4. ^ a b Adelphi University (2011). "Ronald B. Bruder '68" (PDF). Adelphi University Transfer Students Newsletter. p. 5. Retrieved 2012-10-03.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ a b "The Amy and Tony Polak 2010 Distinguished Advocate Award". Anne Frank Center. 2010. Archived from the original on August 12, 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2011.
  6. ^ "Ron Bruder - the Brookhill Group: turnaround ace sees opportunity in many disguises". AllBusiness.com. November 12, 1997. Retrieved June 17, 2011.
  7. New York Times
    . Retrieved June 17, 2011.
  8. ^
    TIME. Archived from the original
    on October 4, 2007. Retrieved June 17, 2011.
  9. Christian Science Monitor
    . Retrieved June 17, 2011.
  10. CNN News
    . Retrieved June 17, 2011.
  11. ^ Ronald Bruder (2013). "The Social Franchise Model Works in Times of Uncertainty". Harvard Business Review. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
  12. Clinton Global Initiative. 2010. Archived from the original
    on September 28, 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2011.
  13. Schwab Foundation. 2012. Archived from the original
    on March 19, 2013. Retrieved March 7, 2013.

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