Bertil Hult

Bertil Eric Hult is a Swedish billionaire, known for founding educational and language school company EF Education First in 1965, and for being the patron and namesake of Hult International Business School.

• Bertil Hult dropped out of college to start a business in his dormitory’s basement in 1965, organizing trips to help students learn English in the UK.
• Today his company, EF Education First, run by his three oldest sons, offers educational travel and language training in 50 countries.
• EF sends teens on summer courses to the UK. and U.S. in such a scale that it makes EF one of the largest buyers of flights across the Atlantic.
• As the official supplier of language training for the 2016 Olympic games in Rio De Janeiro, EF says it helped teach English to 1 million Brazilians.
• Himself severely dyslexic, Hult donates money to LegiLexi, a Swedish charity that supports children with learning disabilities.
• He is also the benefactor of the Hult Prize which awards $1 million in seed funding to the winners of a student competition.