Chris Coles
2023 ALI Fellow

Chris Coles brings to ALI global private capital and development finance experience. A managing director at Barclays Capital, he founded the firm’s leveraged finance business and served on the bank’s management committee. He subsequently became COO and an executive committee member of Actis, an emerging markets private equity firm, and then CIO of British International Investment, the UK government owned international development finance institution. Chris is the co-founder and chair of Ready4SchoolRwanda, a UK nonprofit focused on early childhood development in Rwanda. He is also a founder, investor, and donor in EFAG, an SME leasing group based in East Africa and in Justice and Care, a UK nonprofit combating human trafficking.