Alan M. Parker is a British businessman and major support of left-of-center environmentalist projects and the Chinese Communist Party’s Belt and Road Initiative. Parker made his fortune primarily through selling his shared in the DFS Group, a Hong Kong-based retailer that operates luxury duty-free shops in airports and resorts. He is the founder of the Oak Foundation, and he and his family comprise the Foundation’s board of trustees.
Business Career
In 1966, Parker, an accountant, became a partner in the DFS Group, then a fledgling company that needed assistance navigating international tax law. He was brought into the company by Charles “Chuck” Feeney. Feeney later founded Atlantic Philanthropies, a Bermuda-based foundation that funded the advocacy group Health Care for America Now (HCAN) which drove the campaign to pass the Affordable Care Act (ACA). 6 With these grants, the Oak Foundation and Parker have also positioned themselves as major supporters of the Chinese Communist Party’s Belt and Road Initiative, a plan that foreign policy analysts have critiqued as Chinese geopolitical maneuvering disguised as climate activism. 0){
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