Ronald Cohen

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Mr. Ronald Cohen is a Co-Founder and serves as board emeritus for Social Finance (Consulting Services (B2B)). He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees at The Portland Trust. He is the Co-Founder and serves as a Board Member at Social Finance (US). He also serves as a Consulting Advisor at J-Impact. He also serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board at Dynamic Loop Capital. He serves as Chairman of the Fund's Advisory Board at Bridges Fund Management. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chair & President at the Global Steering Group. He is a co-founder and director of Social Finance UK (2007-11), Social Finance USA, and Social Finance Israel. For nearly two decades, his pioneering leadership in driving impact investment has catalyzed a number of global initiatives into being, each focused on driving private capital to serve social and environmental good. These efforts are leading the global impact investment movement, toward an Impact Revolution. He chaired the Social Impact Investment Taskforce established under the UK's presidency of the G8 (2013-2015), the Social Investment Task Force (2000-2010), and the Commission on Unclaimed Assets (2005-2007). In 2012 he received the Rockefeller Foundation's Innovation Award for innovation in social finance. He co-founded and was Executive Chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide (1972-2005). He was a founder director and Chairman of the British Venture Capital Association and a founder director of the European Venture Capital Association. He is a member of the Board of Dean's Advisors at Harvard Business School and a Vice-Chairman of Ben Gurion University; a former director of the Harvard Management Company and the University of Oxford Investment Committee; a former member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers (2007-2013), former Trustee of the British Museum (2005-2012) and a former trustee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (2005-2011). He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Apax Foundation. He is a graduate of Oxford University, where he was President of the Oxford Union. He is an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School to which he was awarded a Henry Fellowship.