soros may have been the first modernday billionaire philanthropist in the west - he's controversial 1) for leading the world of finance away from politicians ruling over paper money 2) not being thin skinned about entrepreneurial failures

as far as we know he was
first investor in village mobile phones to end poverty- the history o0f how rural bangladesh transformed through decades of no electricity to the smartest operato0r of digital banking for the poor and the largest ngo cluster is most fully understood from alumni of sir fazle abed and at brac university

he's started new economics networks as a response to sub-prime and issued a series of challenges to the what the eu required youth to bail ot elders system failures rg sub prime banking and ponzi scheme pension

concerned to do the best (eg with gorbachev) to welcome russian people back into the world's opportunities- he also hunted out jim kim and paul farmer and asked them to transfer their end tb services to russian prisons where many brave dissidents were confined

Being a neighbor of russia has been complicated both for the neighbors people and for Russian people.Its never right in our view for powerful country's leaders to stop talking to each other. Additionally the European Union Northern members have put sp much attention on North Eurasia that they have let the whole of the med sean neighborhood fall into disrepair - even though the french in particular had special responsibility for north africa , together with Britain in suez and middle east- and Italy Turkey Greece where the land bridge connects the 3 continents of europe asia and africa

Soros was one of the first billionairea to sponsor a new university - he located ths in his city of birth budapest (also the city of von neumann's students years- sadly in late 2010s this has fallen victim to nationalist pressures caused we would say by the EU's carelessness or other forces beyond season

his earliest philanthropy supported black youth in south africa in late 1970s

his 25+ years of hosting open society association is likely as sincere as a billionnaire can get- yet there are times when human rights networks abuse sustainable human development -it saddens us when soros sdg intent (celebration of all loving and hard working entrepreneurial cultures)  is misused by lobbies that distort a total system advance of a nation or community network