As the founder of a global data and media company, Bloomberg LP, as 108th Mayor of New York City, and as the guiding force behind Bloomberg Philanthropies, Mike Bloomberg works every day to change people’s lives in meaningful ways.
Unique among today's leading philanthropists, Mike Bloomberg has run both a multi-billion-dollar company Bloomberg LP, a technology company he founded in 1981 and one of the world's largest cities. His entrepreneurial spirit, public- policy experience, and belief in the power of cities to drive solutions to pressing global problems define Bloomberg Philanthropies' approach to making the world a better place.
David versus Goliath in fishing Peru
A little more than three years ago, the government of the People's Republic of China surprised the world by reporting that its distant water industrial vessels, which fish for squid at the edge of the...