Colin Coleman

Colin Coleman (born 1962) is a South African banker and public figure. He was previously a partner and the CEO of Goldman Sachs for Sub Saharan Africa. 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, CNN, France24, Bloomberg News, and CNBC Africa as an expert on markets, politics, and banking in South Africa.

Biography

Coleman was born on October 31, 1962.

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

Before lecturing at Columbia Business School, and a Senior Fellow and lecturer at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. While at Yale, in 2020, and a non-executive board member at the Foschini Group (now TFG Limited).

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