George Soros
Investor, Organization leader
1930 –
Who is George Soros?
George Soros is a Hungarian-born American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is the 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 pounds, giving him a profit of $1 billion during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis.
Soros is a well-known supporter of progressive-liberal political causes. He played a significant role in the peaceful transition from communism to capitalism in Hungary and provided one of Europe's largest higher education endowments to Central European University in Budapest. Soros is also the chairman of the Open Society Foundations.
Famous Quotes:
- "Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception. "
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- Born
- Aug 12, 1930
Budapest - Also known as
- György Schwartz
- Soros György
- Schwartz György
- The Puppet Master
- The Man Who Broke the Bank of England
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Annaliese Witschak
(1960/09/17 - 1983/06) - Susan Weber Soros
(1983/06/19 - 2005)
- Annaliese Witschak
- Children
- Religion
- Atheism
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Hungarian people
- Hungarian American
- Nationality
- Hungary
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Science, London School of Economics and Political Science
( - 1952)
- Bachelor of Science, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Employment
- Soros Fund Management
- Double Eagle
(1969 - 1973) - First Eagle
(1967 - ) - Vice President, Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder
- Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder
(1963 - 1973) - Wertheim and Company
(1959 - 1963) - Arbitrage Trader, F. M. Mayer
(1956 - 1959) - Open Society Foundations
- Lived in
- New York City
- England
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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