Christopher Hohn

Founder, The Children's Investment Fund Management

$9.47B

as of 10/04/24

About Christopher Hohn

Activist investor Chris Hohn founded The Children's Investment Fund, a London-based hedge fund, in 2003.

The son of a Jamaican car mechanic, Hohn attended Southampton University in the U.K. and got an MBA at Harvard.

He briefly worked in consulting and private equity, before joining Richard Perry's hedge fund, Perry Capital, in 1996.

He opened Perry's first U.K. office and launched his own portfolio, then left to start Children's Investment Fund.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Source of wealth

Hedge funds

Residence

London, United Kingdom

Marital status

Divorced

Birth date

10/27/66 (age 57)

Education

Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Self-made

self-made