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George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary on August 12, 1930. He survived the occupation of
Budapest and left communist Hungary in 1947 for England, where he graduated from the London School
of Economics. While a student at LSE, Mr. Soros became familiar with the work of the philosopher
Karl Popper, who had a profound influence on his thinking and later on his professional and
philanthropic activities. The financier. In 1956 Mr. Soros moved to the United States, where he
began to accumulate a large fortune through an international investment fund he founded and
managed. Today he is Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC.
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