People Profiles

Learn how specific individuals are influencing public policy. Each profile below is carefully curated by an InfluenceWatch contributor, and includes funding data where appropriate.

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George Soros

Donor, Multi-Issue Advocacy

George Soros is a Hungarian-born American investor, author, left-of-center political donor, and philanthropist. Outside of his political giving and advocacy, he is best known for…

Michael Bloomberg

Activist, Donor, Other, Politician

Michael Bloomberg is a former three-term mayor of New York City and unsuccessful candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Bloomberg, a billionaire financier and…

John Feinblatt

Board Member or Executive, Firearms Policy

John Feinblatt is president of Everytown for Gun Safety and Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, center-left gun control groups created in 2014 by former…

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Activist, Politician, Healthcare Policy

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., son of former U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY) and a member of the Kennedy political family, is an environmental activist,…

Neville Roy Singham

Board Member or Executive, Donor

Neville Roy Singham is an American businessman and self-described socialist. He is married to Jodie Evans, co-founder of CODEPINK, a left-wing advocacy group created to…

Shannon Watts

Activist, Firearms Policy

Shannon Watts is a left-of-center gun control activist and founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America (Moms Demand Action). Watts founded the…

Brian Acton

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Abortion Policy, Tech Policy

Brian Acton is a billionaire technology entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of mobile messenger app WhatsApp.

Jodie Evans

Activist, Board Member or Executive, Criminal Justice Policy, Drug Policy, Environmental Policy, Foreign Policy, Healthcare Policy

Jodie Evans is the co-founder of the controversial far-left anti-war organization CODEPINK, a political activist, and an author. She has defended anti-U.S. insurgents during the…

Liz Simons

Other

Liz Simons is the daughter of billionaire retired hedge fund manager and Democratic political donor James Simons. She is the wife of Mark Heising, the…

Peter Thiel

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Tech Policy

Peter Thiel is a technology investor and a mega-donor to Republican Party candidates. Thiel co-founded PayPal in 1998 and in 2004 was the first outside…

Steve Ballmer

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Multi-Issue Advocacy

Steve Ballmer is the former CEO of Microsoft and a major funder of left-of-center advocacy groups. From 2016-2021, Ballmer donated over $110 million to Los Angeles organizations alone.

Larry Fink

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Environmental Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism)

Jared Isaacman

Board Member or Executive, Donor

Jared Isaacman is the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as of December 2025. He is also an American billionaire, entrepreneur, philanthropist,…

Hillary Clinton

Activist, Lawyer, Politician, Multi-Issue Advocacy

Hillary Clinton is a former First Lady of the United States, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Secretary of State.

Joe Biden

Politician, Multi-Issue Advocacy

Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr., is a Democratic politician and the 46th President of the United States, serving from January 20, 2021 until January 20,…

Mary McCord

Board Member or Executive, Lawyer, Other, Elections Policy

Mary McCord is a left-of-center attorney, academic, and former Obama administration Department of Justice official who directs the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP)…

Ted Turner

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Energy Policy, Environmental Policy

Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III was a billionaire media proprietor, conservationist, and philanthropist best known as the founder of CNN, the first 24-hour cable news…

Roger Waters

Activist, Other, Environmental Policy, Foreign Policy

Roger Waters is a British musician and former front-man of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. Waters is known for his support for left-wing activism,…

Brian Becker

Board Member or Executive, Foreign Policy, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism)

Brian Becker is the national director of the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition, a radical-left, anti-war, antiracist group that organizes…

Tom Steyer

Activist, Donor, Environmental Policy

Thomas Fahr “Tom” Steyer is an American hedge-fund billionaire turned climate-change activist, and major political donor to environmental causes and Democrats advocating an environmentalist agenda…

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