Craig Cohon is an ethical entrepreneur. He is currently CEO of Globalegacy. As well, along with world famous business guru CK Prahalad, he was one of four founding partners of The Next Practice; a world class strategic advisory firm that helped CEO’s innovate and build bold business models with and for people living in poverty.

Craig had a 15-year executive-level career at The Coca-Cola Company. He was the first employee to live in Russia and started their operations in the Soviet Union in 1990, ran marketing in Northern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and was the Coca-Cola brand director worldwide. He served as Director of Learning Strategy for 3 years and served as Deputy Division President for the Northwest Europe Division, a $2 billion operating unit.

A Canadian and American, Cohon received a BA in liberal arts from the University of Western Ontario in 1985. In 1993, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Economics from Moscow International University.

In 2000, the World Economic Forum named him “A Global Leader for Tomorrow”. In 2003 he was asked by the UN to participate in a high level commission on International Development. He has lived in Canada, USA, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Venezuela, South Africa and the UK and has worked in 70 countries. He has been featured in the FT, News night, the New Statesman and the Wall Street Journal.