Ronald Cohen

Sir Ronald Cohen    (Venture capitalist)
Born	Ronald Mourad Cohen 1 August 1945
Interests	Impact investing
"The father of British venture capital"

Sir Ronald Cohen is an Egyptian-born British businessman and political figure. He is the chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, The Portland Trust and Bridges Ventures. He has been described as "the father of British venture capital" and "the father of impact investing".

Labour donor

Cohen is notorious in the UK for bankrolling the neoliberal “New Labour” governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and is believed to have donated up to £800,000 to the Labour Party.

Impact capitalism

Cohen is apparently a member of the executive committee of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, “a world-leading authority on global security, political risk and military conflict”.

These days Cohen is involved with Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, whose website describes him as “a preeminent international philanthropist, venture capitalist, private equity investor, and social innovator, who is driving forward the global impact revolution”.

Sir Ronald tells us: “All big movements, including recent neoliberalism, were funded by philanthropists, and the same is becoming true of the impact movement. The Omidyar Network, Ford, Rockefeller, MacArthur, Kresge and Hewlett Foundation in the US; Europe’s Bertelsmann Stiftung in Germany and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Portugal; Lord (Jacob) Rothschild’s family foundation, Yad Hanadiv, and the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation, in Israel; and Ratan Tata and the Tata Trusts, in India, have all supported the impact movement”.

He adds: “One of the most promising new family foundations is the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). In 2015, at the age of 30, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced that they plan to direct 99 per cent of their $45 billion wealth into CZI. Their goal is to make a substantial commitment to impact investing that is focused on ‘personalised learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities’”.

Part of the Great Reset

Cohen approvingly quotes Megan Starr, the global head of impact for the arms-dealing Carlyle Group, when she remarked that “it’s no longer possible to generate high rates of return unless you invest for impact”.

He lists Goldman Sachs, “another big-name asset management firm that is involved in impact investing”, “Unilever, under the enlightened leadership of CEO Paul Polman”, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Accenture, Nestlé and Coca-Cola.

Cohen tells us that Bono, of U2 and Band Aid fame, has, through his Rise Fund, “become a powerful advocate for the use of impact investment”.

Cohen argues: “The fact is that our existing social contract has expired and we are now in the process of drawing up a new one in the form of impact capitalism”.

In other words, his impact revolution aims to save capitalism by reshaping it. It is part of The Great Reset.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Herzliya Conference/2006	21 January 2006	24 January 2006	Israel Tel Aviv Reichman University	A 2006 conference on Israeli security needs.
Herzliya Conference/2007	21 January 2007	24 January 2007	Israel Tel Aviv Reichman University	"The conference examined the array of dangers, threats and difficulties Israel has faced since early 2006, identified a broad web of problems in all of the fundamental strata upon which national security is based, and proposed strategies for action."
Herzliya Conference/2009	2 February 2009	4 February 2009	Israel Tel Aviv Reichman University
WEF/Annual Meeting/2004	21 January 2004	25 January 2004	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2068 billionaires, CEOs and their politicians and "civil society" leaders met under the slogan Partnering for Prosperity and Security. "We have the people who matter," said World Economic Forum Co-Chief Executive Officer José María Figueres.

 

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Document:Charles' Empire - the Royal Reset Riddle	Article	9 September 2022	Winter Oak	Charles and his ruling class collaborators have to dress up their insidious Great Reset agenda as “doing good”, as “philanthropy” or “conservation”, because they know that otherwise the rest of us would not go along with it.

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