Colin Coleman

Colin Coleman is a South African businessman, academic and public figure. Colin is presently an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School in New York, has served as a Distinguished Fellow with Insead, and in 2020 served as a Senior Fellow and Lecturer at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs where he taught a course "Doing business in Africa, the last Frontier of Global growth." Colin is an independent non-executive member of the Board of The Foschini Group. Colin is a member of the advisory board of AriseIIP, a developer and operator of industrial ecosystems in Africa. He also served on the Steering Committee of the CEO Initiative, and is Co-Chairman of the Youth Employment Service (YES). In 2020, he served as a Senior Advisor to the political risk consultancy, Eurasia. Colin consults to a number of companies. A former partner of Goldman Sachs, he was Chief Executive Officer, Sub Saharan Africa, Goldman Sachs up until his retirement in 2019. He was head of the Goldman Sachs South Africa office from 2000. In 2008, he was named head of the Investment Banking Division for Sub-Saharan Africa. He was named managing director in 2002 and partner in 2010.In the 1980's Colin was an anti-apartheid activist, and from 1989 deeply involved in South Africa’s constitutional transition from apartheid to democracy. He served in working groups of the multi-party talks, facilitated the International Mediation Forum and helped to negotiate the agreement to facilitate all parties’ participation in South Africa’s 1994 elections. Colin was named one of the World Economic Forum’s "Global Leaders for Tomorrow". He was also a recipient of Harvard Business School’s “Business Statesman Award” on behalf of the Consultative Business Movement and was named one of Euromoney's World Top Ten “Financing leaders for the 21st Century."