George Soros Biography
- Title:
- Chairman of Soros Fund Management, LLC
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Is a Two-State Solution (Israel and Palestine) an Acceptable Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?"
- Reasoning:
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“It was this dangerous state of affairs -including the breakdown of government in Palestine and fighting between Fatah and Hamas-that prompted the Saudi initiative, which holds out the prospect of a peace settlement. Such a settlement would be very much in the interests of Israel and the United States.”
“On Israel, America and AIPAC,” New York Review of Books, www.georgesoros.com, Apr. 12, 2007
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Founder and Chairman, Open Society Institute
- Founder and Chairman, Soros Fund Management LLC
- Founder, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
- Recipient, Yale International Center for Finance Award from the Yale School of Management, 2000
- Awarded, Laurea Honoris Causa by the University of Bologna, 1995
- Honorary Doctorate, Budapest University of Economics, 1991
- Honorary Doctorate, Yale University, 1991
- Honorary Doctorate, New School for Social Research, New York, 1980
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Oxford, 1980
- Co-founder, Quantum Fund, 1970
- Vice-President, Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, 1963-1973
- Analyst, Wertheim and Company, 1959-1963
- Arbitrage Trader, F. M. Mayer, 1956-1959
- Founder of a philanthropic network active in more than 50 countries
- Former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations
- Education:
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- BS, London School of Economics, 1952
- Other:
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- Subsidizer and supporter of the Solidarity labor movement in Poland
- Subsidizer and supporter of the Czechoslovakian human rights organization Charter 77
- Subsidizer and organizer of Georgia’s Rose Revolution
- Responsible for a currency devaluation of the British pound in 1992, gaining approximately $1.1 billion in the process