George Soros (born : August 12, 1930 ), originally named Georgie Chawa ta (Hungary Gyorgy Schwartz) Hungary is an American business executives, analysts, investors, money, value stocks. At present the company Soros Fund Management Chairman and the Institute of Open Society Institute. is a Hungarian-born American business magnate, investor, author, andphilanthropist. He is chairman of Soros Fund Management. He is known as “The Man Who Broke the Bank of England” because of his short sale of US$10 billionworth of pounds, giving him a profit of $1 billion during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis. Soros is one of the 30 richest people in the world. Soros is a well known supporter of progressive–liberal political causes. Between 1979 and 2011 Soros donated more than $8 billion to various philanthropic causes. He played a significant role in the peaceful transition from communism to capitalism in Eastern Europe (1984–89) and provided one of Europe's largest higher education endowments to Central European Universityin Budapest. Soros is also the chairman of the Open Society Foundations.