Colin Coleman

Colin Coleman, I’m the Chief Executive Officer, Sub Saharan Africa, Goldman Sachs, a position I assumed on January 1st, 2019. I have been head of the Goldman Sachs South Africa office since 2000. In 2008, I was named head of the Investment Banking Division for Sub-Saharan Africa. I was named managing director in 2002 and partner in 2010.

Colin Coleman, I was an anti-apartheid activist and deeply involved in South Africa’s constitutional transition from apartheid to democracy. I 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.

I was named one of the World Economic Forum’s “Global Leaders for Tomorrow”. I 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.”