Alexander Soros

Alexander Soros (born October 27, 1985) is an American philanthropist.

He graduated from New York University in 2009, and in 2018 graduated with a PhD in history from the University of California, Berkeley.

On June 11, 2023, the Wall Street Journal reported he would be the heir to the Soros fortune and would immediately take over the Soros Open Society Foundation.

Soros manages the Soros Family Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, which distributes around US$1.5 billion a year to advance human rights and democratic governments, as well as some charities considered causes aligned with more liberal American politics.

Soros established himself as a philanthropist with his first major contribution to the Jewish Funds for Justice.

According to a 2011 profile in The Wall Street Journal, Soros' focus is on "progressive causes."

Since then, he has joined the board of directors of organizations including Global Witness (as an advisory board member), which campaigns against environmental and human rights abuses associated with the exploitation of natural resources; the Open Society Foundations, which works to establish government accountability and democratic processes internationally; 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 donate to political causes as well.

In March 2012 he donated $200,000 to the Jewish Council for Education and Research, the organization behind 2008's "Great Schlep" in support of then-candidate Barack Obama.

In 2012, Soros established the Alexander Soros Foundation, which is dedicated to promoting social justice and human rights.

Among the foundation's initial grantees are Bend the Arc, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, which represents the rights of 2.5 million domestic workers in the U.S., and Make the Road New York, which builds the power of Latino and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice.

Alongside the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations, the Alexander Soros Foundation funded the first-ever national statistical study of domestic workers ("Home Economics: The Invisible and Unregulated World of Domestic Work," released November 26, 2012).

Soros is credited as a producer of several movies, including Trial by Fire and The Kleptocrats.

Soros is a visiting assistant professor of political studies at Bard College, where he has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College.

Additionally, Soros is a member of the board of trustees at Bard.

In 2014, Soros contributed an essay to the book God, Faith and Identity from the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors.

Soros' writing has appeared in, among others, The Guardian, Politico, The Miami Herald, The Sun-Sentinel, and The Forward.

Soros has homes in North Berkeley, Lower Manhattan and South Kensington, London.

One of the sons of billionaire George Soros, he is chair of the Open Society Foundations and one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders of 2018.

Alexander Soros is the son of billionaire George Soros and Susan Weber Soros.

He was raised in Katonah, New York and has a younger brother, Gregory.

Alex attended King Low Heywood Thomas in Stamford, Connecticut.