Colin Coleman
{{short description|South African banker and public figure|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| name = Colin Coleman
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1962}}
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| nationality =
| occupation = Banker, academic
| years_active = 1980s-present
| parents = Audrey and Max Coleman
}}
Colin Coleman (born 1962){{cite web
| url =http://whoswho.co.za/colin-coleman-2877
| title = Colin Coleman
| website =Who's Who of South Africa }} is a South African banker and public figure.{{cite web
| url =http://www.news24.com/Archives/City-Press/If-the-ANCs-favourite-banker-were-finance-minister-for-a-day-20150429
| title =If the ANC's favourite banker were finance minister for a day
| date =January 25, 2014
| website =News24}}{{cite web
| url =http://www.businessinsider.com/the-10-most-impressive-new-partners-at-goldman-sachs-2010-11#colin-coleman-head-of-investment-banking-in-south-africa-5
| title =The 11 Most Impressive New Partners At Goldman Sachs
| date =2010
| publisher =Business Insider }} He was previously the CEO of Goldman Sachs{{cite web
| url =http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/outlook/bios/coleman-colin-bio.pdf
| title =Colin Coleman
| publisher =Goldman Sachs }} for Sub Saharan Africa.{{cite web
| url =http://www.fin24.com/Economy/the-good-guys-will-win-out-in-sa-says-goldman-sachs-md-20171012
| title =The good guys will win out in SA, says Goldman Sachs MD
| last =Peyper
| first =Liesl
| date =October 12, 2017
| website =Fin24 }} In January 2020, he left Goldman Sachs to become a senior fellow and lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.{{Cite web|url=https://jackson.yale.edu/person/colin-coleman/|title = Colin Coleman}}
He has been interviewed by the BBC,{{cite web
| url =http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04277dq
| title =Where's the smart money going in Africa?
| date =July 22, 2016
| publisher =BBC }} CNN,{{cite web
| url =https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2013/11/25/spc-marketplace-africa-south-colin-coleman-a.cnn
| title =S. Africa's impact on continent's economy
| date =November 25, 2013
| website =CNN }} France24,{{cite web
| url =http://www.france24.com/en/20140125-interview-colin-coleman-managing-director-partner-goldman-sachs-south-africa-davos
| title =The Interview
| last =Antoine
| first =Stephanie
| date = January 27, 2014
| publisher =France24 }} and CNBC Africa as an expert on issues such as the market, politics, and banking in South Africa.{{cite web
| url =https://www.cnbcafrica.com/news/special-report/2014/05/10/election-outcome-was-predictable-coleman-1/
| title =Election outcome was predictable: Coleman
| last =Matsilele
| first =Trust
| date =May 10, 2014
| publisher =CNBC Africa
| access-date =November 22, 2017
| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20171201044036/https://www.cnbcafrica.com/news/special-report/2014/05/10/election-outcome-was-predictable-coleman-1/
| archive-date =December 1, 2017
| url-status =dead
}}
Biography
Colin Coleman was born on October 31, 1962. In 1988 he graduated from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa with a BA in architecture. He became involved in South Africa's constitutional transition in the 1980s, and Business Insider writes that Coleman "spent years helping to dismantle Apartheid." In 1987, he became the national media officer of the National Union of South African Students, and starting in 1989 he held management positions with the Consultative Business Movement, Standard Bank Investment Corporation (SBIC), and Johannesburg's Standard Corporate & Merchant Banking. 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. He received the Business Statesman Award from Harvard Business School in 1994, and in 1996 he was one of the World Economic Forum’s Global Leaders for Tomorrow.
Coleman moved to London in 1997, where until 2000 he was at JP Morgan as vice president of energy, power and oil for JP Morgan’s Investment Banking Advisory Department. After JPMorgan he began working with Goldman Sachs, and in 2000 Goldman Sachs International appointed him as its head in South Africa. Goldman Sachs International named him a managing director in 2002, head of its Investment Banking Division for Sub-Saharan Africa in 2008, and a partner in 2010. 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." Coleman is currently a board member of the Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA), the National Business Initiative, and previously READ Development, Endeavor and the Business Election Fund.
Coleman ascribes to the CEO Pledge of South Africa,[https://ceopledge.co.za/ CEO Pledge, South Africa. Accessed 18-01-19.] and co-chairs the Youth Employment Service (YES),[http://www.yesforyouth.co.za/about-us/ "About Us"; Youth Employment Service. Accessed 18-01-19.] a public and private enterprise partnership targeting creation of one million South African business paid youth internships.[http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/youth-employment-service-to-benefit-1m-young-people-2018-03-27/rep_id:4136 "Youth Employment Service to benefit 1m young people", by Marleny Arnoldi; Engineering News; Cream Media. 27 March 2018. Accessed 18-01-19.][http://www.capetalk.co.za/articles/297510/jobless-youth-to-get-work-experience-through-yes-initiative "Jobless youth to get work experience through 'YES' initiative", 28 March 2018. Accessed 18-01-19.]
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External links
- [http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/outlook/bios/coleman-colin-bio.pdf Coleman at Goldman Sachs]
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Category:South African business executives