Jonathan Soros

Jonathan Soros is a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute where he explores the role of corporations in society.  Mr. Soros is examining the reach and consequences of corporate “personhood” in the time after the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United.  In addition, he is exploring the emerging field of social investment and the ways in which it mobilizes for-profit organziations for the production of public goods.  Finally, Mr. Soros is working together with Bo Cutter on the Next American Economy project, which among other topics will test the role of the private sector as a deliberate agent of change in American economic life over the next twenty-five years.

In addtion to his work at the Roosevelt Institute, Mr. Soros serves as the President and Deputy Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC. Mr. Soros serves on the board of directors of the Open Society Foudnation (OSF), the Soros Economic Development Fund, and Central European University. He is also a member of the Next Generation Leadership Board at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad.

Before joining Soros Fund Management in 2002, Mr. Soros clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and co-founded the Fair Trial Initiative, a North Carolina-based non-profit organization that seeks to improve the quality of representation available to death penalty defendants. Prior to graduate school, Mr. Soros was a program manager at OSF in Budapest and assistant director for the International Foundation for Electoral Systems’ mission to Moldova. He also served as a staff member on the Clinton/Gore ’92 campaign and inaugural committees.  He received his B.A from Wesleyan University and graduate degrees from Harvard Law School and the John. F. Kennedy School of Government.