Not much is known about Alexander Soros, the son of billionaire philanthropist and financier George Soros, as he takes the reins from his father as chair of the Open Society Foundations, or OSF.
George, meanwhile, is very much a public figure. The 92-year-old Hungarian American billionaire is celebrated and maligned in almost equal measure for his brand of pro-democracy philanthropy around the world. His 37-year-old son, on the other hand, first came to the world’s attention largely because of his reputation as a New York City socialite in the late 2000s.
Now older and more established in the philanthropy world, Alex is set to help run one of the biggest philanthropic organizations in the world and has claimed to be “more political” than his father.