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George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary on August 12, 1930. He survived the Nazi occupation of Budapest and left communist Hungary in 1947 for England, where he graduated from the London School of Economics. While a student at LSE, Mr. Soros became familiar with the work of the philosopher Karl Popper, who had a profound influence on his thinking and later on his professional and philanthropic activities.
The financier. In 1956 Mr. Soros moved to the United States, where he began to accumulate a large fortune through an international investment fund he founded and managed. Today he is Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC.
The philanthropist. Mr. Soros is the Chairman of the Open Society Institute. He has been active as a philanthropist since 1979, when he began providing funds to help black students attend Cape Town University in apartheid South Africa. During the 1980s he funded Eastern European dissidents and organizations including Solidarity in Poland and Charter 77 in what was then Czechoslovakia. Mr. Soros establish his first foundation in his native Hungary in 1984, a foundation in what was then the Soviet Union in 1987, and the Stephan Batory Foundation in Poland in 1988. Today the Soros foundation network is active in more than 50 countries in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the United States. These foundations are dedicated to building and maintaining the infrastructure and institutions of an open society. In 1992, Mr. Soros founded the Central European University, with its primary campus in Budapest. The Soros foundations network spent roughly $400 annually million to support projects in education, public health, civil society development, and many other areas.
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