Sir Ronnie Cohen is Vice-Chair of Capitals Coalition following its merger in 2025 with the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) of which he was the founding Chair.
Sir Ronnie is a pioneering philanthropist, venture capitalist, private equity investor and social innovator who is driving forward the global Impact Revolution. He is President of GSG Impact and Chair of The Portland Trust, both of which he co-founded, and was co-founder of Social Finance UK, US and Israel and the Education Outcomes Fund, and co-founder Chair of Bridges Fund Management and Better Society Capital. He chaired the G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce (2013–14), the UK’s Commission on Unclaimed Assets (2005–7), and the UK’s Social Investment Task Force (2000–10). He was co-founder and executive Chair of Apax Partners Worldwide LLP (1972–2005).
He is the author of IMPACT: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change, (1st ed. 2020, 2nd ed. 2025), which became a Wall Street Journal Bestseller. He is also the author of ON IMPACT: A Guide to the Impact Revolution. His first book The Second Bounce of the Ball, published in 2007, was described by the Financial Times as “one of the best books written on entrepreneurship in recent years.”
Sir Ronnie was educated at Oxford and Harvard. He lives in London.