Colin Coleman (born 1962) is a South African banker and public figure. He was previously the CEO of Goldman Sachs for

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. In January 2020, he left Goldman Sachs to become a senior fellow and lecturer at

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. He has been interviewed by the

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Biography

In 1988 he graduated from the

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with a BA in architecture. He became involved in South Africa's constitutional transition in the 1980s, and ''

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'' writes that Coleman "spent years helping to dismantle

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." In 1987, he became the national media officer of the

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, 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

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’s Global Leaders for Tomorrow. Coleman moved to

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in 1997, where until 2000 he was at

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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, and co-chairs the Youth Employment Service (YES), a public and private enterprise partnership targeting creation of one million South African business paid youth internships."Jobless youth to get work experience through 'YES' initiative", 28 March 2018. Accessed 18-01-19.
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External links

Coleman at Goldman Sachs
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