George Robinson

George Edward Silvanus Robinson (born November 1956) is a British hedge fund manager, media proprietor and philanthropist. He is the co-founder of Sloane Robinson, a hedge fund headquartered in the City of London. Early life George Robinson was born in November 1956, in Hampstead. He matriculated at Keble College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, in 1975. Career Robinson started his career at the Swire Group in Hong Kong. He then worked at Cathay Pacific, an airline partially owned by the Swire Group. In 1985, he joined W. I. Carr as their researcher on Korean Stock Exchange companies, working in Seoul, then moved on to Bangkok, Thailand, still working for Carr, to report on companies listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. In 1991, he became Carr’s Director of Research in Hong Kong and China. In 1993, with Hugh Sloane, Robinson co-founded Sloane Robinson, a hedge fund with its headquarters in the City of London. He was still a Director in 2012. He also serves on the advisory board of Cerno Capital.