====== Chris Hughes ======

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**Chris Hughes** is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of [[Facebook]].

===== History =====

==== Career ====

In March 2009, Hughes was named Entrepreneur in Residence at [[General Catalyst]].((Schonfeld, E. (2009, March 17). //After Facebook And The Obama Campaign, Chris Hughes Takes a Post At General Catalyst.// TechCrunch. https://archive.ph/Q7Kk8))

In July 2010, the [[Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS]] (UNAIDS) appointed Hughes to a 17-member "High Level Commission" tasked with spearheading a "social and political action campaign over the coming year aimed at galvanizing support for effective HIV prevention programmes."((//Top world personalities join UNAIDS’ High Level Commission to bring about a prevention revolution.// (2010, July 21). UNAIDS. https://web.archive.org/web/20221203063625/https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2010/july/20100721prpreventioncommission))

In November 2010, Hughes launched a social network called [[Jumo]] designed to index charities.((Ehrlich, B. (2010, November 30). //Facebook Co-Founder Launches Social Network for Social Good, Jumo [IMAGE].// Mashable. https://web.archive.org/web/20220322013544/https://mashable.com/archive/facebook-co-founder-launches-social-network-for-social-good-jumo-image)) He attended the 2011 meeting of the [[bilderberg|Bilderberg Group]] in [[switzerland:St. Moritz]], [[Switzerland]].((//Bilderberg 2011: Full Official Attendee List.// (2011, June 10). The Vigilant Citizen. https://archive.ph/6k1mv))

Hughes co-founded the [[Economic Security Project]] in 2016.((Matthews, D. (2020, January 15). //Chris Hughes wants another chance.// Vox. https://archive.ph/h5bs4))