Colin Coleman

Colin Coleman
Born1962 (age 63–64)
OccupationsBanker, academic
Years active1980s-present
Parent(s)Audrey and Max Coleman

Colin Coleman (born 1962)[1] is a South African banker and public figure.[2][3] He was previously a partner and the CEO of Goldman Sachs[3][4] for Sub Saharan Africa.[4][5] Coleman is co-founder and co-chairman of South Africa's Youth Employment Service (YES), and a non-executive board member at TFG Limited. He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, and has been interviewed by the BBC,[6] CNN,[7] France24,[8] Bloomberg News,[9] and CNBC Africa as an expert on markets, politics, and banking in South Africa.[10]

Biography

Coleman was born on October 31, 1962.[1] In 1988,[4] he graduated from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa with a BA[1] in architecture.[3][1] He became involved in South Africa's constitutional transition in the 1980s;[4] Business Insider writes that Coleman "spent years helping to dismantle Apartheid."[3] In 1987, he became the national media officer of the National Union of South African Students[1] and, starting in 1989, held management positions with the Consultative Business Movement,[4][1] Standard Bank Investment Corporation (SBIC),[4] and Johannesburg's Standard Corporate & Merchant Banking.[1] In the 1994 elections, he facilitated the International Mediation Forum, also brokering the agreement that “led to all parties participating” in the elections that year.[4] He received the Business Statesman Award from Harvard Business School in 1994,[3] then, in 1996,[4] was named one of the World Economic Forum’s Global Leaders for Tomorrow.[1]

He moved to London in 1997,[4] where, until 2000, he was at JP Morgan as vice president[1] of energy, power and oil for its Investment Banking Advisory Department.[4] After JPMorgan, he began working with Goldman Sachs;[3] in 2000 Goldman Sachs International appointed him as its head in South Africa, then named him a managing director in 2002,[4][1] head of its Investment Banking Division for Sub-Saharan Africa in 2008, then a partner in 2010.[4] That year Business Insider named him one of the 11 Most Impressive New Partners At Goldman Sachs, and he was one of Euromoney’s World Top Ten “Financing leaders for the 21st Century."[3] He retired from the firm at the end of 2019.[11]

Coleman is co-chair of YES, South Africa's Youth Employment Service,[12][13] a public and private enterprise partnership targeting creation of one million South African business paid youth internships,[14][15] which he co-founded in 2018.[16] He has ascribed to the CEO Pledge of South Africa.[17]

Before lecturing at Columbia Business School,[12] he was he was a Distinguished Fellow at INSEAD,[18] and a Senior Fellow and lecturer at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.[19] While at Yale, in 2020,[19] he was also a senior advisor to Eurasia Group political risk consultancy,[20] and a non-executive board member at the Foschini Group (now TFG Limited).[21]

He joined the advisory board of DC-based Mercury Public Affairs in 2024,[22] has been a board member of the Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA);[1][5] the National Business Initiative; READ Development; Endeavor; and the Business Election Fund (BEF);[1] and Kyosk;[12] as well as a member of the advisory board of Arise IIP.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Colin Coleman". Who's Who of South Africa. Archived from the original on 20 August 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  2. ^ "If the ANC's favourite banker were finance minister for a day". News24. 25 January 2014.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "The 11 Most Impressive New Partners At Goldman Sachs". Business Insider. 2010.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Colin Coleman" (PDF). Goldman Sachs.
  5. ^ a b Peyper, Liesl (12 October 2017). "The good guys will win out in SA, says Goldman Sachs MD". Fin24.
  6. ^ "Where's the smart money going in Africa?". BBC. 22 July 2016.
  7. ^ "S. Africa's impact on continent's economy". CNN. 25 November 2013.
  8. ^ Antoine, Stephanie (27 January 2014). "The Interview". France24.
  9. ^ "Colin Coleman on 'Devastating' Effects Iran War is Having on African Economies". Bloomberg News. 23 March 2026. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  10. ^ Matsilele, Trust (10 May 2014). "Election outcome was predictable: Coleman". CNBC Africa. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  11. ^ "Goldman's sub-Saharan Africa CEO Coleman to leave firm". Reuters. 5 November 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  12. ^ a b c d "Colin Coleman | Mining Indaba". miningindaba.com. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  13. ^ "yesforyouth.co.za". www.yesforyouth.co.za (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 14 December 2024. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  14. ^ "About Us". Youth Employment Service. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  15. ^ Arnoldi, Marleny. "Youth Employment Service to benefit 1m young people". Engineering News. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  16. ^ "Coleman leaving to return in a stronger position". SA Jewish Report. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  17. ^ "CEO Pledge". ceopledge.co.za. Archived from the original on 1 April 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  18. ^ The Power Table: The BRICS business opportunity - CNBC Africa. 23 August 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2026 – via www.cnbcafrica.com.
  19. ^ a b "Colin Coleman - Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs". Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. Archived from the original on 2 March 2024. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  20. ^ "US political system flagged as top risk". Business Day. 23 February 2020. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  21. ^ "Colin Coleman joins TFG board". Moneyweb. 23 January 2020. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
  22. ^ "Mercury's advisory board lands South African leader Colin Coleman". Mercury Public Affairs. Retrieved 28 May 2026.

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