Sir Ronald Cohen

Sir Ronald Cohen is Chairman of Portland Capital LLP, The Portland Trust and Bridges Community Ventures. After a successful career at Oxford University and Harvard Business School, he was a founding partner and former chairman of Apax Partners, one of the world’s leading private equity investment groups.

Sir Ronald is currently chairman of the Social Investment Task Force and the Commission on Unclaimed Assets. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and is the Vice-Chairman of Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He is also a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers.

He is a graduate of Oxford University, where he was president of the Oxford Union, an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, and has an MBA from Harvard Business School, to which he was awarded a Henry Fellowship.

Born in Egypt, Sir Ronald is based in London with his wife and two children.