REFLEXIVITY AND FALLIBILITY:  GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR

UNDERSTANDING AND ACTING WITHIN SOCIAL SYSTEMS

George Soros

Manager of the Quantum Fund and

Founder of the Soros Foundation

New York, New York

Tuesday, May 2, 2006, 11 a.m.

Duques Hall, Room 552, 22^nd and G Streets NW

The George Washington University

Washington, DC

Reflexivity and fallibility are key ideas in the philosophy and theory that George Soros has used to manage his investment fund and to guide his philanthropic activities.  On May 2 he will speak at GWU on his new book.  Following brief introductory remarks the session will be devoted to comments and conversation on an early draft of the book.  Copies are available in the GWU Department of Management, Funger Hall 315, 22^nd and G Streets NW, and the Department of Finance, Funger Hall 501.  A good place to begin reading is the short article “The Theory of Reflexivity” which is also available at the two departments in Funger Hall. 

George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC.  He has been active as a philanthropist since 1979, when he began providing funds to help black students attend Capetown University in apartheid South Africa. Today he is Chairman of the Open Society Institute and the founder of a network of philanthropic organizations active in more than 50 countries in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the United States. In 1992, Mr. Soros founded the Central European University, with its primary campus in Budapest. Mr. Soros is the author of eight books including The Bubble of American Supremacy, 2004, George Soros on Globalization, 2002; The Alchemy of Finance, 1987; Opening the Soviet System, 1990; Underwriting Democracy, 1991; Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve, 1995; The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered, 1998; and Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism, 2000. Mr. Soros is a graduate of the London School of Economics.

For questions about this program contact Stuart Umpleby, umpleby@gwu.edu or Robert Savickas, savickas@gwu.edu.