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Sir Christopher Anthony Hohn CHRIS HOHN Co-Founder ciff.org KCMG (born October 1966) is a British billionaire hedge fund. As of 2025, he is worth $11.2 billion.
In 2003, Hohn established The Children's Investment Fund Management (TCI), a value investing hedge fund. Profits generated by the fund were initially proportionately allocated to The Children's Investment Fund Foundation, a registered charity in England and Wales.
After a 2025 watchdog report indicated that between 2014 and 2023, Hohn had sent $553 million to U.S. political and environmental advocacy organizations, Hohn's foundation announced that it would stop giving money to U.S.-based groups, citing uncertainty about the U.S. policy environment governing foreign funding. He has been one of the largest funders of Extinction Rebellion, whose U.S. affiliate has called for "rebellion against the U.S. government for its criminal inaction on the ecological crisis." Hohn has also been a major donor to the Arabella Advisors network via the New Venture Fund and Windward Fund.
He is known as an activist investor. He is an outspoken advocate of urgent action on climate change.
He was a pupil at St Paul's County Secondary School in Addlestone between 1979 and 1983, gaining 13 O Levels. He then attended the University of Southampton, from which he graduated in 1988 with first-class honours in accounting and business economics. TCI goes where other funds fear to tread – FT.com He then briefly worked for Coopers & Lybrand to help cover his impending student loan repayments. While at Southampton, a tutor advised him to apply for Harvard Business School, where he completed the Master of Business Administration course. He graduated in 1993 as a Baker Scholar, meaning he was among the top five percent of all graduates.
In 2003, Hohn set up his own hedge fund, The Children's Investment Fund. TCI donated regularly to a connected charitable fund, The Children's Investment Fund Foundation, run by his then-wife, Jaime. The original formula involved transfers of 0.5 percent of the fund's assets each year, with a further 0.5 per cent of assets for every year during which the fund achieved returns of more than 11 per cent. It is reported that Hohn established the formulaic charitable link in order to motivate himself. Coinciding with the couple's divorce proceedings, changes set in motion in 2012 led to the splitting up of the fund and the foundation. The fund no longer donates money to the foundation on a contractual basis, though it may do so on a discretionary basis.
Hohn took £200m in dividend payments in 2018, slightly more than his Children's Investment (TCI) fund made in profit. This was down from $274m in 2017 and $364m in 2016. His 2015 earnings of $250 million ranked him 12th among the 25 top earning hedge fund managers.
In 2019, it was reported that he had built a €730m stake in Heathrow Airport Airport via a range of investment companies jointly taking a 4% stake in Spanish multinational Ferrovial.
From March 2019 to March 2020 he paid himself $479 million, the highest annual amount paid to a person in the UK.
In conjunction with The Children's Investment (TCI) fund Hohn launched the "Say on climate" initiative. The idea of the campaign is to make companies disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and their plans to manage these emissions and also give shareholders an advisory vote on the plans and their results. The initiative was first implemented by ENAIRE, Unilever, Glencore, and CN but it has won many critics at the same time.
In December 2023, Hohn received a £275 million dividend from TCI Fund Management.
In 2019 it was reported by The Daily Telegraph that Hohn had donated £50,000 to environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion, with a further £150,000 donated by the Children's Investment Fund Foundation. None of the Charity's money was spent on civil disobedience, it was claimed. As of January 2022, Hohn was the single biggest individual donor to Extinction Rebellion.
In April 2020, he made a £2.4 million donation to purchase around 100 SAMBA II machines to test for COVID-19.
In April 2025, in response to the Trump administration's cutoff of USAID funds, Hohn donated to MANA Nutrition, a company in Georgia, to enable continued production of peanut butter paste for malnourished children.
In 2013, it was reported that Hohn had begun divorce proceedings with his wife. In November 2014, he was set to pay his American-born ex-wife $500 million, in what was thought to be the biggest divorce settlement ever awarded by an English court. In December 2014, he was ordered to pay his ex-wife £337 million.
Hohn was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to philanthropy and international development.
Hohn practices yoga and does not eat meat.
He is married to Kylie Hohn (nee Richardson), who has a PhD from Harvard University and has taught at Harvard and the University of Cambridge. She is the CEO of LightEn, an organisation of which they are the co-founders.
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