Alex Soros trashed as impossible and wrong person to lead dad Georges foundation in magazine profile

A New York Magazine profile on Alex Soros, son of George Soros, who has been chosen to take up his father’s leadership mantle, doesn’t paint the heir in a positive light. “The real story is that every single person who knows the family knows that Alex was exactly the wrong person to lead the foundation,” the New York Magazine profile on Alex Soros, published Tuesday, reads, quoting an anonymous source “with deep OSF ties.” George Soros started what the Open Society Foundations (OSF) website calls his “philanthropic network” in the mid-1980s.It eventually became OSF, which has been led by George Soros for decades. In June 2023, he passed the leadership torch to his son, Alex. “In private he is brooding and cerebral and has a propensity for candor and bursts of hot-temperedness,” the New York Magazine piece, authored by Simon van Zuylen-Wood, says of Alex Soros, who is chair of the board of directors at OSF. “His halting, Peter Thiel–like baritone is full of ahs and ums, and his sentences can sound like records skipping, as if he were unable to easily put into language what is clear in his mind.

This slightly tortured persona has invited comparisons with his elder half-brother Jonathan, who sprang from Harvard Law School and a federal clerkship to work alongside his father in finance and philanthropy.” Van Zuylen-Wood writes that people, including OSF’s first president, Aryeh Neier, thought that Jonathan Soros, a co-founder and partner of the investment firm, One Madison Group, would be his father’s successor. “When Soros insiders try to explain the family dynamic, they draw on the standard texts of empire and heredity,” van Zuylen-Wood says.“‘Roman is Alex,’ says a former OSF senior official, referring to Roman Roy, the sardonic failson in Succession. ‘Smart but f**king impossible and not particularly interested in the details.’ Another Soros insider cites not HBO but the Gospel of Luke, casting Alex in the...