George Soros HonFBA is a Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist. As of March 2021, he had a net worth of US$8.6 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune.
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Forbes called Soros the “most generous giver” (in terms of percentage of net worth). He is a resident of New York.
Born in Budapest to a non-observant Jewish family, Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary and moved to the United Kingdom in 1947. He studied at the London School of Economics and was awarded a BSc in philosophy in 1951, and then a Master of Science degree, also in philosophy, in 1954.
Soros started his career working in British and American merchant banks, before setting up his first hedge fund, Double Eagle, in 1969. Profits from this fund provided the seed money for Soros Fund Management, his second hedge fund, in 1970. Double Eagle was renamed Quantum Fund and was the principal firm Soros advised. At its founding, Quantum Fund had $12 million in assets under management, and as of 2011, it had $25 billion, the majority of Soros’s overall net worth.
Soros is known as “The Man Who Broke the Bank of England” as a result of his short sale of US$10 billion worth of pounds sterling, which made him a profit of $1 billion, during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis. Based on his early studies of philosophy, Soros formulated the General Theory of Reflexivity for capital markets, to provide insights into asset bubbles and fundamental/market value of securities, as well as value discrepancies used for shorting and swapping stocks.
Soros supports progressive and liberal political causes, to which he dispenses donations through the Open Society Foundations. Between 1979 and 2011, he donated more than $11 billion to various philanthropic causes; by 2017, his donations “on civil initiatives to reduce poverty and increase transparency, and on scholarships and universities around the world” totaled $12 billion. He influenced the fall of communism 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 his Hungarian hometown.
Soros’s extensive funding of political causes has made him a “bugaboo of European nationalists”. In 2018, The New York Times reported that “conspiracy theories about him have gone mainstream, to nearly every corner of the Republican Party”. Numerous American conservatives have promoted false claims that characterize Soros as a dangerous “puppet master” behind alleged global plots. Conspiracy theories targeting Soros, who is of Jewish descent, have often been called antisemitic.
Soros has been married three times and divorced twice. In 1960, he married Annaliese Witschak (born January 3, 1934). Annaliese was an ethnic German immigrant, who had been orphaned during the war. Although she was not Jewish, she was well-liked by Soros’s parents as she had also experienced the privation and displacement brought about by World War II. They divorced in 1983. They had three children.
In 1983, George Soros married Susan Weber. They divorced in 2005. They have two children.
In 2008, Soros met Tamiko Bolton; they married on September 21, 2013.
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Soros has been married three times and divorced twice. In 1960, he married Annaliese Witschak (born January 3, 1934). Annaliese was an ethnic German immigrant, who had been orphaned during the war. Although she was not Jewish, she was well-liked by Soros’s parents as she had also experienced the privation and displacement brought about by World War II. They divorced in 1983. They had three children.
In 1983, George Soros married Susan Weber. They divorced in 2005. They have two children.
Robert Soros
Robert Daniel Soros (born 1963) is an American investor and the founder of Soros Capital Management. The eldest son of billionaire investor George Soros, he was the deputy chairman and president of his father’s firm, Soros Fund Management, until June 2017. He then formed Soros Capital Management, a family office based in New York.
Robert Daniel Soros was born in 1963 in New York City, the eldest son of Annaliese and George Soros, a billionaire investor who founded Soros Fund Management. Robert attended Choate Rosemary Hall, a boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut. He later graduated in 1986 with a degree in English literature from New York University.
Soros began his career working at his father’s firm, Soros Fund Management. His first employment at the firm was brief and he left to work at a variety of other organizations, including the German bank Schröder, Münchmeyer, Hengst & Co. He returned to work at his father’s firm in 1994.
Soros Fund Management had $26 billion in assets under management by June 2017 when Soros stepped down as deputy chairman and president to start Soros Capital Management. A family office based in New York, his firm was a major backer of the Japanese deferred online payment service Paidy, which was acquired by PayPal for $2.7 billion in 2021.
On May 5, 1992, Soros married Melissa Robin Schiff at the Temple Emanu-El in New York City. They filed for divorce in 2014. In June 2021, Soros married Jamie Singer Soros, the CEO and founder of Ussie.
Soros is an avid competitive sailor.
Andrea Soros
Andrea Soros Colombel (born June 11, 1965): The founder and president of Trace Foundation, established in 1993 to promote the cultural continuity and sustainable development of Tibetan communities within China. She is also a founding partner and member of the board of directors of the Acumen Fund, a global venture fund that employs an entrepreneurial approach to addressing the problems of global poverty. She is married to Eric Colombel (born October 26, 1963).
Jonathan Tivadar Soros
Jonathan Tivadar Soros (born September 10, 1970) is the founder and chief executive officer of JS Capital Management LLC, a private investment firm. Prior to that, Soros worked at Soros Fund Management in daily operations and was co-deputy chairman of the organization.
He has been a prominent donor to Democratic and progressive political causes. Soros started the Friends of Democracy PAC, now merged into Every Voice, to push for campaign finance reform and the abolition of the electoral college.
Soros’s parents are Annaliese Witschak and business magnate George Soros, who divorced in 1981. He is the brother of Andrea and Robert Soros and half-brother of Gregory and Alexander, from his father’s second marriage to Susan Weber.
He received a bachelor of arts from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 1992. He received a master’s in public policy and a juris doctor from Harvard University.
Soros married Jennifer Allan in 1997, who was a social worker when they met. The two first met while working for the 1992 Clinton-Gore presidential campaign. Beginning in 2000, the couple lived in a townhouse in the West Village of Manhattan.
Alexander Soros
Alexander Soros (born 1985) is an American philanthropist. A son of billionaire George Soros, he is Chair of the Open Society Foundations and one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders of 2018.
Alexander Soros is the son of billionaire George Soros and Susan Weber Soros. He was raised in Katonah, New York, and has a younger brother, Gregory. Alex attended King Low Heywood Thomas in Stamford, Connecticut. He graduated from New York University in 2009, and in 2018 graduated with a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley.
Soros has homes in North Berkeley, Lower Manhattan, and South Kensington, London.
Alexander has gained prominence for his donations to social and political causes, focusing his philanthropic efforts on “progressive causes that might not have widespread support.” Alexander led the list of student political donors in the 2010 election cycle.
Gregory James Soros
Gregory James Soros (born 1988), artist.
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