Chairman of Soros Fund Management, LLC and founder of The Open Society Institute
George Soros was born in Budapest in 1930. He survived the Nazi occupation and then fled communist Hungary for England, where he graduated from the London School of Economics. He then settled in the United States, where he accumulated a large fortune through the investment advisory firm he founded and managed. Mr. Soros is the author of ten books, including most recently The Crash of 2008 and What it Means.