Aryeh Neier
Interview - Aryeh Neier
1 June 2009
Alliance magazine
George Soros began funding open society initiatives in the then Eastern bloc some 25 years ago, significantly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. What inspired this decision, how have things changed since then, and what do Soros’s various philanthropic enterprises see as their role now that their operations have spread worldwide? Caroline Hartnell talked to Aryeh Neier, Soros Foundation president since 1993, about its origins and the evolution of Soros’s philanthropic activities over a quarter of a century.
