The Profile
Alex Soros: From party boy to empire boss
As the surprise boss of Open Society Foundations, pipping his brother to the post, the billionaire businessman’s son will command a $25 billion global network
In 2016, as in many other years before and since, George Soros found himself firmly in the eye of the storm.
The billionaire businessman, a devout supporter of liberal causes, was pouring tens of millions of dollars into Hillary Clinton’s ailing and ill-fated presidential campaign – making him the sworn enemy of many supporters of Donald Trump.
Soros, a Hungarian-American, had long been a bogeyman for American conservatives. But in 2016, the year of Trump’s ...