George Soros

George Soros, Hon FBA is a Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist. As of February 2018, he had a net worth of $8 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to his philanthropic agency, Open Society Foundations. 

• George Soros is a celebrated hedge fund tycoon who managed client money in New York from 1969 to 2011.
• In 1992, Soros shorted the British pound and reportedly made a profit of $1 billion. He became known as the man who broke the Bank of England.
• Soros shifted $18 billion from his family office to his Open Society Foundations as of 2018. His fund’s assets are worth an estimated $8.4 billion.
• Soros was born in Hungary; at 17 he left the country and put himself through the London School of Economics working as a railway porter and waiter.
• In recent public appearances, Soros has been a vocal critic of U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jingping.