LONDON — Last month, the Sunday Times Giving List identified Chris Hohn as the United Kingdom’s biggest personal philanthropist, donating more than a third of his £1.2 billion ($1.52 billion) fortune so far.
His Children’s Investment Fund Foundation shot into the limelight when it became caught in one of the most expensive divorce cases in English history — and set a new precedent in U.K. charity law — but has otherwise largely stayed out of the public eye.
Expecting to disburse $300 million in 2019, with an endowment of over $5 billion, CIFF is the U.K.’s second-biggest foundation, after the Wellcome Trust.