George Soros
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Soros at the Munich Security Conference in 2011
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Schwartz György August 12, 1930 Budapest, Hungary |
| Citizenship | Hungary, United States |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics (MSc BSc) |
| Occupation | Chairman of Soros Fund Management Chairman of the Open Society Foundations Founder and adviser of the Quantum Fund |
| Employer | Soros Fund Management Open Society Foundations |
| Net worth | US$24.9 billion (November 2016) |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) |
Annaliese Witschak (m. 1960; div. 1983) Susan Weber Soros (m. 1983; div. 2005) Tamiko Bolton (m. 2013) |
| Children | 5, including Jonathan and Alexander |
| Relatives | Paul Soros (brother) |
| Website | georgesoros |
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George Soros (/ˈsɔːroʊs/ or /ˈsɔːrɒs/; Hungarian: Soros György, pronounced [ˈʃoroʃ ˈɟørɟ]; born August 12, 1930) is a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, political activist, and author. He is chairman of Soros Fund Management. He is known as "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England" because of his short sale of US$10 billion worth of Pound sterling, making him a profit of $1 billion during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis. Soros is one of the 30 richest people in the world.
Soros is a well-known supporter of American progressive and American liberal political causes. Between 1979 and 2011 Soros donated more than $11 billion to various philanthropic causes. He played a significant role in the peaceful transition from communism to capitalism in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and provided one of Europe's largest higher education endowments to the Central European University in Budapest. Soros is also the chairman of the Open Society Foundations.
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