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25 unusual facts about George Soros


Adam Daniel Rotfeld

As Former Polish minister for integration he recently signed the Soros' open letter calling for more Europe in the single currency turmoil.

America Coming Together

The group was primarily funded by insurance mogul Peter Lewis, currency trader George Soros, and labor unions, especially the Service Employees International Union, and was led by Steve Rosenthal, a former political director of the AFL-CIO.

Andy Stern

Stern has been a key figure in financing the online grassroots "netroots" community, along with Dean, George Soros, Simon Rosenberg, and Andrew S. Rappaport, to funnel a progressive agenda to liberal bloggers.

Araz Azimov

The article attributes Samir Sharifov and George Soros to engaging in political activity that could "push the region toward war."

Bertrand Newton

Newton's philosophy on political advertising, and organising methods, have their roots in organizations like MoveOn.org, and have been closely connected to George Soros's Open Society Foundation project.

Emma Bonino

Taking her background, one can infer she is a fervent pro-European, she reaffirmed it recently by signing the Soros letter ('As concerned Europeans') and calling for a stronger European integration.

Fred Cuny

At the end of his life he was working closely with George Soros' Open Society Institute, and was instrumental in the early stages of founding the International Crisis Group, which seeks to institutionalize the knowledge base of relief experts.

Frederik van Zyl Slabbert

Slabbert also worked as regional facilitator for the George Soros-backed funding organisation, the Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa, which identifies and invests in worthy projects in nine African countries.

Grand China Air

Grand China Air is managed under a parent company called Grand China Airlines Holding Company (GCAHC) which is held jointly by Hainan province government (48.6%), George Soros (18.6%), and the HNA group (32.8%).

Guram Sharadze

Since then, Sharadze withdrew from politics, but attempted to organize a civic movement against Western influences in Georgia, denouncing the civil society work of philanthropist George Soros as potentially more pernicious to Georgia than the Bolshevik revolution.

Hryhoriy Nemyria

2001-2005 - local Ukrainian head of board of directors at the International Renaissance Foundation, which is a part of the Open Society Institute of the American financier and philanthropist George Soros.

Istvan Teplan

With George Soros he was one of the founders of Central European University (CEU) a graduate school to train the next generation of leaders and to facilitate the democratic transition in East and Central Europe.

Ivan Aralica

The most famous one is “Fukara” (Good for nothing) from 2002, a satirical-political attack on multiculturalist ideology as promulgated by controversial American billionaire George Soros.

Kerr Neilson

Neilson established the Platinum Asset Management fund in 1994 with initial backing from George Soros.

Lancet surveys of Iraq War casualties

A 2008 article in the National Journal revealed for the first time that the Lancet survey was funded in part by George Soros' Open Society Institute.

Luis Emilio Velutini

In 1996, he achieves the association of the Argentinean real estate group IRSA and the known investor George Soros with the Fondo de Valores Inmobiliarios, starting a process of real estate assets acquisitions and reorienting the business towards the rent of office spaces in Caracas for corporation uses.

Massimo D'Alema

He still figures on the European scene; he signed the Soros letter ('As concerned Europeans') and has called for a stronger European integration.

Medical Education for South African Blacks

Major contributors included Peter Bing, Peter Kovler, George Soros, David Tabatznik Bristol-Myers Squibb, Coca-Cola Co., Ford Motor Company, Henry Schein Inc., Hewlett Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, Kellogg Foundation, Levi Strauss & Co., Pfizer, the Starr Foundation, and USAID, among many others.

Pär Stenbäck

As pro-European he co-signed G.Soros' open letter for a federal solution to the crisis.

Paul M. Doty

After retirement he continued to work on Russian-American scientific relations and was board member of George Soros' International Science Foundation that provided support to Russian scientists in the 1990s.

Radmila Šekerinska

She became involved in the Open Society Institute of George Soros and in 1996 won a seat on Skopje City Council, which she held until she was elected to the Macedonian parliament in 1998.

Sachin H. Jain

At Harvard Business School, he was a recipient of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship and the Dean's Award.

Shalva Natelashvili

In a 2011 Forbes magazine article, Natelashvili is quoted as saying that the leadership of Georgia were hand-picked by billionaire George Soros.

Soros Realism

Soros Realism is a term coined by Miško Šuvaković in "Ideologija izložbe: o ideologijama Manifeste" (2002) describing a type of post-socialist art financed by American Businessman of Hungarian origin George Soros, who has financed number of Soros centers for contemporary art the Eastern Europe.

Volodymyr Semynozhenko

In fact, Mr. Semynozhenko has held industrious meetings with leading U.S. executives, such as Mr. Bill Gates and Mr. George Soros, regarding western investment and involvement in the development of the Ukrainian hi-tech industry.


Alexander Soros

He is the son of hedge fund manager and philanthropist George Soros and Susan Weber Soros, the founder and director of the Bard Graduate Center (BGC) for studies in the Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture affiliated with Bard College.

Anatole Kaletsky

In 2012, Kaletsky was appointed Chairman of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, a foundation established after the 2008 financial crisis with $200m of grants from George Soros, Paul Volcker, William Janeway, Jim Balsillie and other leading financiers.

Anne Sinclair

Although primarily focused on politics, her show also included celebrities such as Madonna, Sharon Stone, Paul McCartney, Woody Allen, and George Soros.

Capital control

In October, with reference to increased concern about capital flows and widespread talk of an imminent Currency war, financier George Soros has suggested that capital controls are going to become much more widely used over the next few years.

Chuck Collins

Collins has worked with a number of prominent wealthy individuals, including William H. Gates, Sr. and George Soros in an effort to promote tax equity.

Cindy Rodriguez

O'Reilly would later list Rodriguez as one of many columnists he believes are influenced by George Soros and Peter Lewis in his book The Culture Warrior.

FactCheck.org

At the time of the debate, factcheck.com was controlled by Frank Schilling's company Name Administration Inc., who quickly redirected the address to point to an anti-Bush website owned by Bush critic George Soros.

Loren Graham

He was a member of the board of trustees of George Soros’s International Science Foundation which gave financial support to scientists in Russia immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Michael Scammell

Between 1981 and 1983 he lived in New York, chaired a seminar on censorship at New York University, ran an exchange program with Eastern Europe funded by George Soros, and attended weekly meetings of the New York Institute for the Humanities.

Paul Reichmann

This included setting up a partnership with George Soros, Lawrence Tisch and Michael Price along with investors such as Saudi Prince Al-Waleed to purchase a controlling stake in the Canary Wharf from the banks that made the original construction loans to Reichmann and which had taken control of the development.

PublicAffairs

On its 10th anniversary PublicAffairs arranged a panel discussion with several authors of books published by them, including James Wolfensohn, former president of the World Bank, and George Soros.

ZaMirNET

This venture got the support of the George Soros-funded Open Society Institute, and US peace activist Eric Bachman, living in Europe since 1969, together with the Dutch peace activist Wam Kat (who wrote his daily "Zagreb Dairy" on Zamir), set up an electronic network between peace groups in the region.