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Hungarian-American businessman and philanthropist George Soros has become a divisive figure in global politics and has been ostracised by.

George Soros, Hungarian-born American financier, author, philanthropist, and activist whose success as an investor made him one of the wealthiest men in the.

This event was recorded live on Zoom on March 17, 2022.

Soros legacy we're joined by the president of the 'Open Society Foundations' Patrick Gaspard, reporter and academic James Kirchick, Deputy.

George Soros (born György Schwartz; August 12, 1930) is an American investor and philanthropist.

Profile: Billionaire philanthropist George Soros

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Hungarian-American businessman George Soros is one of the world's most renowned, and philanthropic, financial investors.

Earning his fortune through shrewd financial speculation, he has spent billions of his own money funding human rights projects and liberal democratic ventures around the world.

In recent years, that funding has made him a target of the world's nationalists and populists, who have painted him as a master-manipulator of democracy.

Much of the criticism aimed toward the 87-year-old has been criticised as having anti-Semitic undertones.

Early years

Born in 1930 in Budapest to a Jewish lawyer father, he and his family survived Hungarian Nazi-occupation by splitting up and acquiring forged papers that disguised their religion.

He emigrated to England aged 17, achieving an undergraduate degree and PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE) while working part-time as a railway p