Chris Hohn

Sir Christopher Anthony Hohn KCMG (born October 1966) is a British billionaire hedge fund manager. In 2003, Hohn established The Children's Investment Fund Management (TCI), a prominent value-based hedge fund. Profits generated by the fund were initially proportionately allocated to The Children's Investment Fund Foundation, a registered charity in England and Wales that focuses on improving the lives of children living in poverty in developing countries. He is known as an activist investor. Hohn is worth $8.21 billion according to the Bloomberg billionaires index in 2022 and was ranked among the most successful and wealthiest alumnus of Harvard Business School. As of 2014, he had given over $4.5 billion to The Children's Investment Fund Foundation. In 2019, Forbes put Hohn in the list of the world's most generous philanthropists outside of the US. In recent years, Hohn has become an outspoken advocate of urgent action on the climate crisis, and a prolific contributor to the cause. Early life Christopher Anthony Hohn was born in October 1966 in Addlestone, Surrey, United Kingdom. His father Paul was a Jamaican-born car mechanic of European descent who moved to Britain in 1960, and his mother was a legal secretary from East Sussex.