Christopher Hohn

Activist investor Chris Hohn founded The Children's Investment Fund, a London-based hedge fund, in 2003.

The son of a Jamaican car mechanic, Hohn attended Southampton University in the U.K. and got an 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.