Sir Ronald Cohen
Sir Ronald Cohen is Chairman of The Portland Trust, Bridges Ventures and Big Society Capital. He is a director of Social Finance USA.
He chaired the Social Investment Task Force (2000-2010) and the Commission on Unclaimed Assets (2005-2007). He was a co-founder and director of Social Finance UK (2007-11).
He co-founded and was Executive Chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide LLP (1972-2005). Apax Partners is now one of the world’s leading private equity investment groups.
He was a founder director and chairman of the British Venture Capital Association and a founder director of the European Venture Capital Association. He was also a founder and former Vice-Chairman of EASDAQ and a director of NASDAQ Europe.
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.
He is a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers and of the Board of Dean’s Advisers at Harvard Business School, a Vice-Chairman of Ben Gurion University and a member of the University of Oxford Investment Committee. He is also a Trustee of the British Museum (2005- ) and a former trustee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (2005-2011).
In 2007, Sir Ronald published: "The Second Bounce of the Ball – Turning Risk into Opportunity".