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1Name:  Mr. George Soros
 Institution:  Soros Fund Management, LLC; Open Society Institute
 Year Elected:  2009
 Class:  5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
 Subdivision:  503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1930
   
 
George Soros is the Founder and Chairman of the Soros Fund Management, LLC and the Founder of the Open Society Institute. At the time of the transition in central and eastern Europe from communism to their current governments in the 1980s and early 1990s he emerged as one of the leading philanthropists in the world with his support for those societies. More recently he has become a social commentator, dealing both with philosophical and economic issues. To a rare degree his life encompasses improving the world with his own money based upon his philosophical reflections. He has written a number of books, including: The Alchemy of Finance, 1988; Opening the Soviet System, 1990; Underwriting Democracy: Encouraging Free Enterprise and Democratic Reform Among the Soviets and in Eastern Europe, 1991; Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve, 1995; The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered, 1998; (with M. Notturno) Science and the Open Society: The Future of Karl Popper's Philosophy, 2000; Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism, 2001; George Soros on Globalization, 2002; The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power, 2003; The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror, 2006; The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means, 2008. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1998).
 
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