Abedin, a former aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Soros, the chairman of Open Society Foundations (OSF), met last fall at a mutual friend’s birthday party, where they quickly discovered their mutual interests in politics and public service. (“Huma Abedin has the energy of a woman in her 20s, the confidence of a woman in her 30s, the experience of a woman in her 40s, and the grace of a woman in her 50s,” Clinton told Vogue in 2007 of Abedin’s work ethic.
