Christopher Hohn

Sir Christopher Anthony Hohn KCMG is an English billionaire hedge fund manager. In 2003, Hohn established The Children’s Investment Fund Management, a prominent value-based investment fund manager noted for long-term, owner orientated engagement with publicly listed companies. 

  • Activist investor Chris Hohn founded London-based hedge fund, the Children’s Investment Fund, in 2003.
  • The son of a Jamaican car mechanic, Hohn attended Southamption University in the U.K. and got his MBA at Harvard.
  • He briefly worked in consulting and private equity, before joining Richard Perry’s hedge fund, Perry Capital in 1996.
  • He opened Perry’s first U.K. office and launched his own portfolio, then left to start Children’s Investment Fund.

Children's Investment Fund Christopher Hohn