Sir Christopher Anthony Hohn[1] KCMG (born October 1966) is a British billionaire hedge fund manager.
Profits generated by the fund were initially proportionately allocated to The Children's Investment Fund Foundation, a registered charity in England and Wales that focuses on improving the lives of children living in poverty in developing countries.
[5] In recent years, Hohn has become an outspoken advocate of urgent action on the climate crisis, and a prolific contributor to the cause.
[6] Christopher Anthony Hohn was born in October 1966[7] in Addlestone, Surrey,[8] United Kingdom.
His father Paul was a Jamaican-born car mechanic of European descent who moved to Britain in 1960, and his mother was a legal secretary from East Sussex.
[8] Coinciding with the couple's divorce proceedings, changes set in motion in 2012 led to the splitting up of the fund and the foundation.
[10] Hohn took £200m in dividend payments in 2018, slightly more than his Children's Investment (TCI) fund made in profit.
[6] In conjunction with The Children's Investment (TCI) fund Hohn launched the "Say on climate" initiative.
[15] In November 2022, Chris Hohn on behalf of TCI wrote an open letter to Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and Google.
[21] He married Jamie Cooper, a fellow Harvard graduate student from Chicago, whom he had met at a party during his studies.
[24] In November 2014, he was set to pay his American-born ex-wife $500 million,[25] in what was thought to be the biggest divorce settlement ever awarded by an English court.