Alexander Soros joins GPPi advisory board

Alexander Soros has accepted an invitation to join the advisory board of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi). He is the founder of the Alexander Soros Foundation, which promotes social justice and human rights by making grants to cutting-edge organizations in the United States and abroad.

Soros sits on the boards of Bend the Arc, which supports grassroots efforts to strengthen lower-income neighborhoods across the United States; Global Witness, which exposes and breaks the links between natural resources, conflict and corruption; the School of Public Policy at Central European University, where GPPi president Wolfgang Reinicke is the founding dean; and the Open Society Foundations, which work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies.

He is a native of the greater New York City area and graduated from New York University in 2009 with a BA in history. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in modern European history at the University of California at Berkeley.

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