Alexander Soros Biography
Alexander Soros is a businessman from the United States working as the Deputy Chair of the Open Society Foundations and a 2018 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
How old is Alexander Soros? – Age
He is 36 years old as of 27 October 2021. He was born in 1985 in New York, New York, United States.
Is Jonathan Soros related to George Soros? – Family – Education
He is the son of George Soros, a billionaire, and Susan Weber Soros. He has four siblings; Andrea Soros, Gregory Soros, Jonathan Soros, and Robert Soros. Alex Soros went to King Low Heywood Thomas School in Stamford, Connecticut. He graduated from New York University in 2009 and received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018.
Alexander Soros House
He lives in North Berkeley, has a two-bedroom apartment near Astor Place in Manhattan, and lives in South Kensington, London. He owns works by Otto Dix and George Grosz.
Alexander Soros Foundation
Soros established the Alexander Soros Foundation in 2012 to promote social justice and human rights. Bend the Arc, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, which represents the rights of 2.5 million domestic workers in the United States, and Make the Road New York, which builds the power of Latino and working-class communities to achieve dignity and justice, are among the foundation’s initial grantees. The Alexander Soros Foundation, in collaboration with the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations, funded the first-ever national statistical study of domestic workers.
Alexander Soros Books
In 2014, Soros contributed an essay to the book God, Faith, and Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Holocaust Survivors’ Children and Grandchildren. Soros’ writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Guardian, Politico, The Miami Herald, The Sun-Sentinel, and The Forward.
Alexander Soros Humanitarianism
With his first major contribution to the Jewish Funds for Justice, Soros established himself as a philanthropist. According to a Wall Street Journal profile from 2011, Soros’ focus is on “progressive causes that may not have widespread support.” Since then, he has served on the boards of directors of several organizations, including Global Witness (as an advisory board member), which campaigns against environmental and human rights abuses associated with natural resource exploitation; the Open Society Foundations, which works to establish international government accountability and democratic processes; and Bend the Arc (which was formed by the merger of the Progressive Jewish Alliance and Jewish Funds for Justice in 2012).
Soros continues to contribute to political causes. He gave $200,000 to the Jewish Council for Education and Research in March 2012, the organization behind the 2008 “Great Schlep” in support of then-candidate Barack Obama. Alex received the Gordon Parks Foundation Award in 2017 for his philanthropic support of the arts and humanities.