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(entrepreneur)
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BornChristopher Hughes
1983-11-26
Hickory, North Carolina, United States
NationalityUS
Alma materPhillips Academy, Harvard University
SpouseSean Eldridge
Founder ofFacebook
PartyDemocratic
Co-founder of Facebook. 2011 Bilderberg

Chris Hughes is a co-founder of Facebook and was spokesman for it until 2007[1].


Education

Hughes grew up in Hickory, North Carolina,[2] as the only child of Arlen "Ray" Hughes, an industrial paper salesman, and Brenda Hughes, a mathematics teacher.[3] He was raised as an evangelical Lutheran.[4] He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, before receiving a Bachelor of Arts in History and English Literature from Harvard College.[3][5]

In February 2020, it was reported that Hughes was in the process of studying for a Master of Arts in Economics from The New School.[6] He has since begun a Doctor of Philosophy in business ethics and legal studies at the University of Pennsylvania.[7]

Activities

He was the publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic from 2012 to 2016.

In July 2010, UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) appointed him to a 17-member "High Level Commission" of renowned politicians, business leaders, human rights activists, and scientists tasked with spearheading a "social and political action campaign over the coming year aimed at galvanizing support for effective HIV prevention programmes."[8]

Opinions

In 2019, he wrote an op-ed in The New York Times calling for the break up of Facebook.[9]

 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/20119 June 201112 June 2011Switzerland
Hotel Suvretta
St. Moritz
59th meeting, in Switzerland, 129 guests
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