Christopher Hohn

Activist investor Chris Hohn founded London-based hedge fund, the Children's Investment Fund, in 2003.The son of a Jamaican car mechanic, Hohn attended Southamption University in the U.K. and got his 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.