Mircea Vasilescu is the new president of Soros Foundation Romania
Mr. Mircea Vasilescu has recently been elected the President of the Soros Foundation in Romania, for a mandate of 2 years.
He is the respected editor in chief of Dilema Veche magazine for more than 10 years and a lecturer with the University of Buch... details...
Mentor Me@ Soros Foundation Romania
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George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary, on August 12, 1930. He survived the Nazi occupation of Budapest and left communist Hungary in 1947 for England, where he graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE). While a student at LSE, Soros became familiar with the work of the philosopher Karl Popper, who had a profound influence on his thinking and later on his professional and philanthropic activities.
The financier. In 1956, Soros moved to the United States, where he began to accumulate a large...