George Soros was born in Hungary in 1930. At a young age Soros started trading currencies on the Hungarian black market during World War 2. Avoiding the fate of many Jewish people as the grandson of a Hungarian official he survived the Nazi occupation and left Hungary in 1947 to live in England.While living in England Soros attended and graduated from the London School of Economics. While studying Soros became interested in the work of a teacher and philosopher Karl Popper, Which influenced his thinking and later his professional and philanthropic work.
