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 George
Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management, LLC. He was born in Budapest
in 1930. He survived the Nazi occupation and fled communist Hungary in
1947 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 an international investment fund he founded and
managed. Mr. Soros 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. He has established a network of
philanthropic organizations active in more than 50 countries around the
world. These organizations are dedicated to promoting the values of
democracy and an open society. The foundation network spends about $400
million annually. Mr. Soros is the author of nine books, including most
recently The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror. His
articles and essays on politics, society, and economics regularly appear
in major newspapers and magazines around the world.
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