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AUSTRALIA
Len Ainsworth 94
FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN,
AINSWORTH GAME TECHNOLOGY
Signed the Giving Pledge in March,
promising to donate at least half his
estimated $1.3 billion betting-machine
fortune to charity. Has ramped up his
philanthropic efforts in recent years, fo-
cusing on medical research, universities
and engineering.Andrew Forrest 55
FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN, FORTESCUE
METALS GROUP
Donated more than $300 million in May
to various causes, including cancer re-
search, education and greater oppor-
tunities for indigenous people. It is the
largest philanthropic donation made at
one time by a living person in Austra-
lia. The iron-ore magnate and his wife,
Nicola, were the first Australians to sign
the Giving Pledge, in 2013.Graham Tuckwell 60
FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN, ETF SECURITIES
With his wife, Louise, gave more than
$75 million to Canberra’s Australian
National University last July, the biggest
donation ever by an Australian to a uni-
versity. Funds will be used to build stu-
dent housing for winners of his Tuckwell
Scholarships, established in 2013 with a
$50 million donation.CHINA
Chen Tianqiao 44
Chrissy Luo 41
FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN & CEO/VICE
CHAIRMAN, SHANDA GROUP
Contributed $115 million last Decem-
ber toward the $200 million Tianqiao
& Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuro-
science at the California Institute of
Te c h n o l o g y. T h e g i f t i s a i m e d a t b o o st-
ing brain research. The husband and
wife made their fortune—which topped
$1 billion as recently as 2015—in the
online-videogame industry. They plan
to give more money to Caltech and also
endow brain research at institutes in
China and elsewhere.He Qiaonv 51
FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN,
ORIENT LANDSCAPE INVESTMENT
HOLDING
Her Qiaonyu Foundation, launched in
2012, pledged $15 million last Novem-
ber to set up a fund to counter global
warming. In May, the fund agreed
to provide $1.5 million to the UN
Southern Climate Partnership Incu-
bator initiative to boost environmen-
tal cooperation among developing
countries. The head of the country’s
largest interior design and landscape
architecture firm is also a member of
Mulan Club, a group of female busi-
ness leaders in China that donated
$44 million to Peking University in
May to foster entrepreneurship by
women.Hoi Kin Hong 64
FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN,
POWERLONG GROUP
Set up the Powerlong Philanthropic
Foundation last October with $29
million pledged for poverty re-
lief, culture, education, health care
and environmental protection. The
real estate mogul also donated $23
million last year to other causes,
including $15 million to boost the
development of his rural hometown
in Quanzhou, Fujian.Yao Ming 36
FORMER BASKETBALL STAR
Funds youth basketball leagues in rural
China (see story, p. 24).HONGKONG
Adrian Cheng 37
EXECUTIVE VICE CHAIRMAN,
NEW WORLD DEVELOPMENT
Grandson of the late jewelry and prop-
erty magnate Cheng Yu-tung aims to
bring obscure Chinese artists into the
mainstream through his K11 Art Foun-
dation. Founded in 2010, the nonprofit
nurtures talent, primarily from the
mainland, and has created a bridge to
international museums such as the
Metropolitan Museum in New York,
Serpentine Galleries in London and
Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris.Michelle Ong 60
OWNER, CARNET JEWELRY
The celebrity designer, whose jewelry
was seen in the movie The Da Vinci
Code and who has dressed movie stars
such as Kate Winslet and Glenn Close,
has been donating and raising funds for
charity for more than 25 years. In 2010,
she launched her First Initiative Foun-
dation, and it has disbursed $3 mil-
lion to support cultural development,
musical performances and arts educa-
tion. Every year, she brings togetherPHILANTHROPY
Neil Shen at Yale in 1990.