Soros Foundation officials’ frequent White House visits enable them to influence US policies.

They didn’t appear on a ballot for voters to elect or reject, but many staffers of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations have the ear of high-level White House officials, and with it, influence over federal policies.

Since President Joe Biden took office, representatives from the Open Society Foundations have met privately 40 times in the executive mansion, in meetings ranging from one to three guests, White House visitor logs show.

And while it may take days or weeks for an average citizen to get a meeting at the White House approved, folks connected to Open Society often make their appointments one day in advance, or on the same day as their visit.

Access to Highest Levels

George Soros, founder of Open Society, announced in June that he was handing leadership of his $25 billion dynasty over to his son, Alexander Soros, 37. The younger Soros has already been in a leadership position in the organization. Since the start of the Biden administration, Alexander Soros, chairman of the board of the Open Society Foundations, has visited the White House 18 times. Of those visits, four were meetings in the West Wing with Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer.

Alexander Soros and Finer were joined in a Feb. 9, 2023, meeting by Vieira Abramovay, director of the Latin America Program and regional director of Latin America and the Caribbean at the Open Society Foundations, and by Yasin Yaqubie, special adviser to the deputy chair of the Open Society Foundations.

The meeting was held days before Biden visited Ukraine.

Finer said in a Feb. 21 interview with MSNBC that leading up to the president’s Ukraine visit, the National Security Council was busy planning security for the trip into a war zone for weeks. During this time, the council was also discussing what weapons to provide to Ukraine, Finer told MSNBC.

It is unclear what was discussed in the meeting between Finer, Soros, Yaqubie, and Abramovay. Neither The White House nor the Open Society Foundations responded to questions from The Epoch Times.

That same day, Feb. 9, 2023, Soros met with Jordan Finkelstein, special assistant to the president and chief of staff to the senior adviser to the president. The day before, on Feb. 8, 2023, Soros met in the West Wing with Mariana Adame, adviser to the counselor of the president. And on Feb. 10, 2023, Soros was back in the West Wing to meet again with Finkelstein.

Finer, Soros, and Yaqubie met on Sept. 14 and Dec. 1, 2022. The three also met on Oct. 6, 2022, and added Ivan Krastev to the meeting. Krastev is an Open Society board member.

Meetings Large and Small

Yaqubie has had 14 White House meetings during the Biden administration, visitor records show, including one on Oct. 6, 2022, with Kimberly Lang, who was the national security adviser executive assistant at the time; and three meetings with Nina Srivastava, associate director for domestic personnel at the Presidential Personnel Office.

Jonathan Becker has visited the White House twice. Becker is executive vice president of Bard College and vice chancellor of the Open Society University Network where he sits on the management committee with Alexander Soros.

“The Open Society University Network envisions a new model of global higher education—a long-lasting network with deep partnerships among diverse institutions committed to addressing global challenges collaboratively,” its website says. Among its goals is to “incorporate civic engagement” into higher education and to “expand access to higher education at a time of growing inequities.”

Patrick Gaspard has visited the White House 10 times so far during the Biden administration. Gaspard served as United States Ambassador to South Africa from 2013 to 2016. He was president of the Open Society Foundations from 2017 to 2020. Currently Gaspard is president of the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank largely funded by the Open Society Foundations and the Foundation to Promote Open Society, which are both Soros organizations.

Thomas Perriello, executive director of Open Society–United States, has been to the White House 19 times under Biden. Of those, 10 were one-on-one meetings with White House officials, including Kimberly Lang and Rachel Chiu, chief of staff at the Office of Political Strategy and Outreach at The White House; and Yohannes Abraham when he was deputy assistant to the president and chief of staff and executive secretary of the National Security Council.

Since then, Biden has named Abraham his representative to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN.) Created in 1967, ASEAN is headquartered in Jakarta and includes the nations of Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Myanmar, Brunei, and Laos.

Perriello also met one-on-one with then-White House Policy Adviser Richard Figueroa, who worked for the Center for American Progress before being hired at the White House, according to Figueroa’s LinkedIn page.

In addition to private meetings, many of