Shlomo Elisha Wiesel is the son of Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Wiesel worked for Goldman Sachs for 25 years, until 2019. After leaving Goldman Sachs, he worked as a hedge fund manager and is currently the chairman of the board of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, an organization founded by his father to promote human rights and combat intolerance.