Chantal Coady

Chantal Jane Coady O.B.E. (born 17 April 1959), is a British chocolatier, author and business woman.

Biography Coady was born on 17 April 1959 in Tehran, Iran and has lived and worked in London since the mid-1970s. She studied at Mary Datchelor School, before studying art at the Camberwell College of Arts.

She founded the British chocolatiers and cocoa growers Rococo Chocolates Ltd. in 1983, wanting to change the way that fine chocolate was perceived by selling British-made dark chocolate grown at a single estate in Granada. She came up with the name for the company during a three-week business studies course. In 2017, she collaborated with Roald Dahl’s estate to create chocolates inspired by his children's books and introduced a Christmas range of chocolates and clothing in the shop luxury high-street shop Jigsaw.

Coady was appointed the co-chair of The Academy of Chocolate in 2021. She also works as creative director, brand ambassador and on the board of directors at the Prestat Group.