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Sir Ronald Mourad Cohen is a British investor who works in concert with "his pal, [[Jacob Rothschild]]". <ref name="mathiason" />

== Organizations ==

Sir Ronald Cohen holds a leadership role in many institutions.

=== Apax Partners ===

Apax Partners was founded by Ronald Cohen as England's first venture capital firm.<ref name="mathiason" />

Apax Partners chairman Martin Halusa was one of several financiers scrubbed from the website of the Russian Direct Investment Fund after the events of August 2014.<ref name="billionaires_vanish" />

Former Apax partner Jeremy Reffin is co-director of the Text Analysis Group (taglaboratory.org) at the University of Sussex, and is a member of [[Demos]].<ref name="demos_uk_about"/>

Former Apax partner Barbara Vogelstein is a member of [[Third Way]] and a former partner at [[Warburg Pincus]].<ref name="third_way">http://web.archive.org/web/200805160748
20/http://thirdway.org/leadership/trustees/</ref>

==== Future PLC ====

Future PLC was bought by Apax Venture Partners in 1998. Future's properties included Edge Magazine which ran several articles denouncing video games and the people who play them.

* April 2002 cover story: ''Videogames are pointless. Discuss. Why academics and the mass media see you as a silly child playing silly games.''
* April 2003 cover story: ''Bored to death of videogames? Gaming reaches its mid-life crisis.''
* January 2004 cover story ''Mainstream: Why the days of hardcore gamers are numbered.''

As of 2020, Future PLC's brands include:<ref name="future_brands" />

* Anandtech
* Cinema Blend
* Tom's Guide (Tom's Hardware)
* Marie Claire
* PC Gamer
* Space.com
* TechRadar

=== Portland Trust ===

Portland Trust develops in PLO-controlled territories.<ref name="mathiason" /> Its senior officers include Sir Michael Levy.<ref name="ipf_intrigue" />

=== Bridges Ventures ===

Also known as Bridges Fund Management. Led by Ronald Cohen and Brian Trelstad of the [[Bridgespan Group]].

=== Jewish Leadership Council ===

Cohen is a "senior figure in the Jewish Leadership Council" of Britain.<ref name="mathiason" />

=== Israel Policy Forum ===

The [[Israel Policy Forum]] was founded<ref name="ipf_intrigue"/> by Ronald Cohen and Shimon Peres in 1993 to lobby against the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and in favor of the surrender of Judea to the Palestine Liberation Organization which had pledged in 1974 to use the territory as a staging ground to invade Israel.<ref name="plo_phased_plan" />

In 2010 the Israel Policy Forum merged with the Center for American Progress, part of a project of the UK FCO to re-brand Islamist terrorist organisations as proponents of “social justice”.<ref name="avaaz" />

The Israel Policy Forum board as of 2016 included:<ref name="ipf_990" />

* Charles Bronfman of Canada, nephew of [[Edgar Bronfman Jr.]] of [[InterActiveCorp]] and co-founder of the Mega Group with Leslie Wexner
* Susie Gelman, past president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
* Peter A. Joseph of Palladium Partners and JLL
* E. Robert Goodkind (Bob Goodkind) - partner in Pryor Cashman LLP and former president of the [[American Jewish Committee]]
* Peter Kolevson, Founding Chair and Past President of the Manhattan Jewish Community Center
* Marion Lev Cohen, Director of Adult Engagement at Central Synagogue in New York
* David A. Halperin - executive director. Former reporter for Ha'aretz.

Notable followers of the Israel Policy Forum include: <ref name="ipf_levy_report" />

* Lester Crown, Chicago businessman
* Marvin Lender, founder of Lender's Bagels and former National Chairman of United Jewish Appeal;
* Rabbi Daniel Gordis, President of the Shalem Center
* Deborah Lipstadt, professor of Holocaust studies at Emory University
* Bernard Nussbaum, former White House Counsel
* Thomas Dine, a former executive director of AIPAC
* Richard Pearlstone, former chairman of the Jewish Agency
* Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

=== Global Steering Group for Impact Investment ===

The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment is led by Ronald Cohen, Amit Bhatia, and Krisztina Tora<ref name="gsg_about" /> of the Global Social Entrepreneurship Network<ref name="gsg_tora" /> of [[Muhammad Yunus]]<ref name="gsen_members"/> of Grameen Bank.

The Global Steering Group claimed to control $23 trillion in assets. <ref name="why_we_invested" />

The American members of the Global Steering Group include: <ref name="gsg_usa" />

* [[Darren Walker]], chair of the [[Ford Foundation]]
* [[Matt Bannick]] of the [[Omidyar Network]]
* [[Ray Chambers]] of MCJ Amelior
* [[Clara Miller]] of the Heron Foundation
* [[Tracy Palandjian]] of Social Finance US
* [[Rip Rapson]] of the Kresge Foundation
* [[Andy Sieg]] of Bank of America Merrill Lynch
* [[Ian Simmons]] of Blue Haven Initiative and the Pritzker family
* [[Jim Sorenson]] of Sorenson Impact
* [[Julia Stasch]] of the [[MacArthur Foundation]]
* John Cochrane
* Fran Seegul

Supporting organizations:

* [[Confluence Philanthropy]]
* [[Global Impact Investing Network]]
* [[Intentional Endowments Network]]
* [[Investors' Circle]]
* [[Mission Investors Exchange]]
* [[The Impact]]
* [[Tonic]]
* [[US SIF]]

=== Social Finance ===

Board: <ref name="social_finance_990" />

* Bracebridge H. Young
* Tracy Palandjian - President and CEO
* Sonal Shah - vice chair and director through Dec 2016. Founder of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation.
* Sir Ronald Mourad Cohen
* Alex Friedman - director through Dec 2016
* Nancy Zimmerman - clerk and director
* Sandra Urie
* Laurene Sperling
* Pamela Dippel Choney - Treasurer and director
* Ed Shapiro - vice chair and director
* Ian Simmons
* Lara Metcalf - managing director
* Navjeet K. Bal - VP and general counsel
* Jeffrey Shumway - VP advisory
* Caitlin Reimers Brumme - program director
* Nirav Shah - program director
* Joanna Vanden - program director
* Casey Littlefield - program director
* Rashmi Khare

Contractors:

* Jones Day - legal services ($148k)

==== Social Impact Investment Taskforce ====

* Sir Ronald Cohen
* Ben Thornley - Pacific Community Ventures
* Tracy Palandjian - Social Finance US
* Carol Thompson Cole - Venture Philanthropy Partners
* Seth Goldman - Honest Tea
* Antony Bugg-Levine - Nonprofit Finance Fund
* Dave Chen - Equilibrium Capital
* Mindy Tarlow - Center for Employment Opportunities
* Lori Kaplan - Latin American Youth Center

==== Social Finance Israel ====

Board:<ref name="sfi_board" />

* Sir Ronald Cohen
* David Baruch
* Martin Karp of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles
* Galia Maor of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
* Chemi Peres of the Peres Center for Peace
* Ariel Weiss - CEO of Yad Hanadiv, the Rothschild Foundation
* Anath Levin, former chief investment officer of Clal, part of Russia's Alfa Group
* Amir Levi - Board Member, Former Director of the Budgets Department, Ministry of Finance
* Dr. Sigal Shelach - Board Member, CEO, JDC-Israel

=== Vatican Impact Investment Conference ===

Ronald Cohen is a participant in the [[Vatican Impact Investment Conference]] <ref name="viiconference" />

== References ==

<references>

<ref name="mathiason">Nick Mathiason, ''The high priest of money-making'', The Observer, Sunday 4 November 2007</ref>

<ref name="demos_uk_about">''Our People'', Demos, https://demos.co.uk/about/our-people https://archive.is/KG7IL</ref>

<ref name="billionaires_vanish">Simon Clark, ''American Billionaires Vanish From Russian Fund's Website'', Wall Street Journal, Sept. 3, 2014, https://www.wsj.com/articles/names-of-u-s-billionaires-vanish-from-russian-funds-website-1409747234 http://archive.is/YgKSe</ref>

<ref name="ipf_intrigue">Moshe Dann, ''Israel Policy Forum: A Network of Intrigue'', Frontpage Magazine, Thu Aug 9, 2012 https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/israel-policy-forum-network-intrigue-moshe-dann/</ref>

<ref name="plo_phased_plan">The PLO's "Phased Plan", Information Regarding Israel's Security, https://iris.org.il/plophase.htm</ref>

<ref name="avaaz">Israelinurse, ''Presenting the “progressive” (Guardian approved) group, Avaaz – astroturfing for Hamas'', UK Media Watch, October 19, 2011 https://ukmediawatch.org/2011/10/19/presenting-the-progressive-guardian-approved-group-avaaz-–-astroturfing-for-hamas/ https://archive.md/8ahQE </ref>

<ref name="gsg_about">''About Us'', Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, http://gsgii.org/about-us/</ref>

<ref name="gsg_tora">''Krisztina Tora'', Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, https://gsgii.org/contacts/krisztina-tora/</ref>

<ref name="gsg_usa">''United States - GSG'', Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, https://web.archive.org/web/20180210111000/http://gsgii.org/nabs/united-states/</ref>

<ref name="gsen_members">https://web.archive.org/web/20160115140708/http://www.gsen.global/members</ref>

<ref name="ipf_990">Israel Policy Forum form 990, 2016 http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/900/900653286/900653286_201612_990.pdf</ref>

<ref name="ipf_levy_report">Gil Ronen, ''40 U.S. Jewish Figures to Bibi: Bury Levy Report'', Israel National News, 15.07.12, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157874</ref>

<ref name="why_we_invested">Chris Jurgens, ''Why We Invested — Global Steering Group for Impact Investment'', Omidyar Network, https://medium.com/positive-returns/why-we-invested-global-steering-group-for-impact-investment-91c252511b79 https://archive.is/0dbBQ</ref>

<ref name="social_finance_990">Social Finance form 990, 2016 http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/274/274620963/274620963_201612_990.pdf</ref>

<ref name="sfi_board">''Board of Directors'', Social Finance Israel, http://www.social-finance.org.il/category/Board-of-Directors https://archive.is/jFuOt</ref>

<ref name="future_brands">''Our Brands", Future PLC, https://www.futureplc.com/our-brands/</ref>

<ref name="viiconference">Vatican Impact Investment Conference, https://www.viiconference.org/speakers/ https://archive.is/dGYyF</ref>

</references>

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