Mr. George Soros is famous around the world for his accomplishments as a philanthropic billionaire. George was raised in Hungary in 1930. George’s legal surname when he was a child was at first Schwartz. Nevertheless, his family altered their surnames to escape the anti-Semitic viewpoint of the Nazi invaders. At one time, George’s dad obtained fake identification documents so that their family would be seen as Christians as a means of protection from the Nazi occupiers. The surname Soros is an Esperanto sound which translates to “will soar.” (The rarely spoken language of Esperanto is intended to traverse every border and was made-up sometime in the 1800’s.) Mr. George Soros escaped the Nazi invasion while he was only a teenager and went to London to look for a better life in the 1940s.
During his time in London, he studied classes in economics, laboring diligently at the esteemed London School for Economics. While he was there, he learned about the philosophy that civilization can only mature if its free and displays respect to every citizens’ rights. That very philosophy deeply affected George’s view on life, and Mr. Soros attained his degree in the year 1952. George quickly focused his academic experience to work at the renowned Singer and Friedlander; they are a brokerage agency in London. He learned the application of purchasing a country’s securities and promoting the sale to another country, to gain profit. In the span of only four years, he boarded a ship and sailed to America, in particular to New York, where he began a career of economic interests in 1956. Later in 1961 George became a legal citizen of America. George began employment at numerous Wall Street agencies, and by 1973 he began his own enterprise for hedge funds, named the Soros Fund. George later altered the name to become Quantum Fund, and much later still, to Quantum Fund Endowment. During the late 1970’s, George had started to control his prosperity to help other people, through a range of benevolent work. As of 2012, George has given over seven billion dollars out of his charity endeavors through Open Society Foundation, a company that he founded in 1984. Mr. Soros is one of the wealthiest individuals in the world. Visit Project Syndicate to learn more about George.
Open Society Foundation’s objective is to add to public health actions, back academic activities, and stop social injustices. Mr. George Soros is a supporter for combating the American propaganda agenda called “war on drugs.” He thinks that this alleged war is an effort to extort funds from the underprivileged by punishing them for using marijuana. He has witnessed the positive outcome from marijuana on people who undergo seizures. Learn more about his profile at Forbes.com.