Open Society Foundations
The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their people. To achieve this mission, we give thousands of grants every year to groups and individuals in over 120 countries that work on the issues we focus on—promoting tolerance, transparency, and open debate. We also engage in strategic human rights litigation and impact investing, while incubating new ideas and engaging directly with governments and policymakers through advocacy to advance positive change. We seek to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights. We build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as corruption and freedom of information. We place a high priority on protecting and improving the lives of people in marginalized communities. The Open Society Foundations were founded by George Soros, one of the world’s foremost philanthropists, who since 1984 has given away $32 billion of a personal fortune made in the financial markets. Interested in learning more about our grants, scholarships and fellowships? Visit https://osf.to/grants. Interested in working for us? Visit https://osf.to/jobs for our open positions. Here on our LinkedIn page, we encourage comments and responses that add new information or value; that are clear, concise, and on-topic; and that are generous and constructive. We like questions and feedback, too! Community guidelines: http://osf.to/communityguidelines Privacy policy: http://osf.to/privacywww.opensocietyfoundations.org
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Oct 28, 2026
Felix SuHOST
Chris's work and teaching focuses on the rule of law and combating corruption in public institutions.
Felix SuHOST
Before joining the Oxford faculty, Chris served as president of the Open Society Foundations, a philanthropy funded by George Soros.
Felix SuHOST
Prior, he taught at Harvard Kennedy School from 2008 to 2012 and was president and director of the Vera Institute of Justice from 1994 to 2004.
Felix SuHOST
Thanks for being with us today, Chris.
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Chris StoneGUEST
And it was tremendously rewarding.
Chris StoneGUEST
But I then moved to the Kennedy School in order to do that same thing, in order to help students who were trying to figure out how to learn what they needed in order to build those innovations in government.
Chris StoneGUEST
So I've been really lucky that way, both running the Vera Institute, providing the incubator, teaching at the Kennedy School, funding innovators at the Open Society Foundations, teaching here.
Chris StoneGUEST
They've been different jobs with different employers, but it's all been about trying to create the same kind of support that I benefited so much from when I was trying to change public defender services.
Johann HariGUEST
It's Missing the point to say that doesn't work.
Johann HariGUEST
Those women leave prison even more traumatized, even more addicted, right? I went to Vietnam where they make people with addiction problems, put them in gulags, in forced labor camps, right? Study of this showed 99% of them by the Open Society Foundations, 99% of them relapse immediately, right? When they get out.
Johann HariGUEST
Russia
Brian RoseHOST
has a similar view on addiction, right? Well, Russia
Jay DyerHOST
That is the power structure, the superstructure in the West.
Jay DyerHOST
So, for example, in Russia, entities like the Carnegie Endowment, the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Soros Foundation.
Jay DyerHOST
They run operations and soft power influence campaigns, etc.
Jay DyerHOST
Color revolutions in those countries that have the Russian sphere of influence to go against Russia.
Jay DyerHOST
And in the East, they call that the fifth column.
Jay DyerHOST
That's why you had, for example, Putin booting out certain oligarchs when he came to power.
Jay DyerHOST
That's why you had Russia banning the Soros Foundation a few years ago.
Jay DyerHOST
Russia also banning things like Joe's Witnesses, Scientology, because those are oftentimes covers for espionage, money laundering, and soft power operations, right? they're entities and operations that are adjacent to, or could potentially be under the sway
Shilpa JindiaGUEST
to again investigate, surveil, and prosecute a wide range of civil society groups.
Shilpa JindiaGUEST
And within days after it was issued, the DOJ, there was news that the DOJ was starting to prepare an investigation into the Soros Foundation.
Shilpa JindiaGUEST
which didn't ultimately end up happening at this time.
Shilpa JindiaGUEST
But they've been threatening the source, or OSF, as well as CARE, the Council on American Islamic Relations, and other organizations that have really been at the forefront of challenging the Trump administration.
Alan SandersHOST
A 2022 Harvard Kennedy School paper tied to Future Currents, that's the name of the group, called for building a united front program.
Alan SandersHOST
with listen to this scenario planning and diplomacy so you got to have your tabletop exercises but you also need to be reaching out not only to your domestic partners in these various states via the governors or secretary of states but also any foreign nations that are on board with this We know when Trump was reelected that late last year, late 2025, that folks from Democracy Fund, Open Society, and Freedom Together wrote.
Alan SandersHOST
They came together and wrote in the Chronicle of Philanthropy that funders, people who donate to them, that funders should lean on courts, the independent authority of state and local governments, and the delegitimization of executive overreach.
Alan SandersHOST
Sound familiar? We now know that months later, Renew America Democracy, or RAD, produced a working paper on the constitutional role of governors in a federal legitimacy crisis.
Betsy McCaugheyGUEST
Greg, he went to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship.
Betsy McCaugheyGUEST
He got a huge scholarship to Columbia Medical School courtesy of the Soros Foundation.
Betsy McCaugheyGUEST
He has had a red carpet.
Betsy McCaugheyGUEST
in American life ever since high school, a red carpet, never mind racism.
Betsy McCaugheyGUEST
Greg, he went to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship.
Betsy McCaugheyGUEST
He got a huge scholarship to Columbia Medical School courtesy of the Soros Foundation.
Betsy McCaugheyGUEST
He has had a red carpet.
Betsy McCaugheyGUEST
American life ever since high school a red carpet not never mind racism he's been the beneficiary of reverse racism of anything she's been just handed the keys to the to America and in return he has written all this racist drivel against the rest of America.
Betsy McCaugheyGUEST
Greg, he went to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship.
Betsy McCaugheyGUEST
He got a huge scholarship to Columbia Medical School, courtesy of the Soros Foundation.
Betsy McCaugheyGUEST
He has had a red carpet scholarship.
Betsy McCaugheyGUEST
in American life ever since high school, a red carpet, never mind racism.
Jenica PoundsGUEST
So you'll see them converge on the same goal, like structural reform, even if they differ in the means in which they're going to attempt to achieve this.
Jenica PoundsGUEST
So the earliest that I could trace this to, and it goes back quite far, was a paper that was written by a member of the Omidyar Network of Foundations and the Open Society Foundations, you know, Soros and them.
Jenica PoundsGUEST
It was written in 2025.
Jenica PoundsGUEST
So, you know, we have it going back at least this far.
John McGuireGUEST
We stopped the funding for some of these terror groups.
John McGuireGUEST
You know, my opponent, Tom Perriello, works for George Soros, and he ran the Open Society Foundation that pushed 15 to 20 million illegal criminals into our country i don't know if you know but lake and raleigh that blood is on the hands of democrats like tom perriello and and there's too many in louisa county you probably saw a two-year-old girl two months ago was raped and murdered by an illegal alien That blood is on the hands of Democrats like Tom Perriello.
John McGuireGUEST
It's suicidal empathy or something.
John McGuireGUEST
I don't know.
John McGuireGUEST
The enemy is in the gate.
John McGuireGUEST
And you may remember during the summer of love when Black Lives Matter burned our cities for like eight months.
John McGuireGUEST
The Open Society Foundation followed $220 million to help them get out of jail and everything else, and they continue burning our cities.
John McGuireGUEST
Thank God we got President Trump.
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