George Robinson (hedge fund manager)

George Robinson was born in November 1956,[1] in Hampstead.[2] He matriculated at Keble College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, in 1975.[3]

Robinson started his career at the Swire Group in Hong Kong.[4] He then worked at Cathay Pacific, an airline partially owned by the Swire Group.[4] In 1985, he joined W. I. Carr as their researcher on Korean Stock Exchange companies, working in Seoul,[4] then moved on to Bangkok, Thailand, still working for Carr, to report on companies listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand.[4] In 1991, he became Carr’s Director of Research in Hong Kong and China.[4]

In 1993, with Hugh Sloane, Robinson co-founded Sloane Robinson, a hedge fund with its headquarters in the City of London.[5] He was still a Director in 2012. He also serves on the advisory board of Cerno Capital.[4]

In 2008, Robinson and fellow financier Peter Hall, each acquired 26% of Prospect, a British political affairs magazine, from Derek Coombs.[6] As a result, Hall and Robinson jointly had a controlling stake in the magazine. They later sold it, and Prospect is now owned by the Resolution Foundation.[6]

Robinson was worth an estimated £220 million in 2008.[6] As of 2015, the figure was £185 million.[5]

He has made charitable contributions to his alma mater, Keble College, where he chairs a fundraising campaign known as the "2020 Campaign." and he is as an Honorary Fellow.[3][7] He also serves on the Investment Committees of Eton College.[4]

He serves on the board of trustees of the Policy Exchange, a think tank based in Westminster.

He is a major donor to the Conservative Party. From 2004 to 2015, he donated in excess of £400,000 to the party.[8]