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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Michael Bloomberg

Activist, Donor, Other, Politician

Michael Bloomberg is a businessman and left-of-center politician who served three terms as mayor of New York City from 2002 through 2013 and ran unsuccessfully…

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…

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…

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.

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 with ties to numerous left-of-center and radical-left activist groups. Singham has been accused of being…

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…

Larry Fink

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

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.

Joe Biden

Politician, Multi-Issue Advocacy

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is a Democratic politician who served as the 46th president of the United States from January 2021 to January 2025. Before…

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.

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,…

Barack Obama

Activist, Politician, Identity Politics (for race-based policy/activism), Multi-Issue Advocacy

Barack Obama is a Democratic politician who served as the 44th President of the United States, as U.S. Senator from Illinois, and as an Illinois…

Tom Steyer

Activist, Donor, Environmental Policy

Thomas Fahr "Tom" Steyer is an American hedge-fund billionaire, left-of-center political donor, climate-change activist, and political candidate who has spent hundreds of millions of dollars…

Elon Musk

Board Member or Executive, Donor, Other, Multi-Issue Advocacy, Tech Policy

Elon Musk is a South African-born American technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist best known for his role as a founder or co-founder of several high-profile…

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…

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