Nicholas Colloff / Trustee

Nicholas Colloff is the director of the Argidius Foundation, a family foundation focused on supporting enterprise development in Africa and Latin America as an approach to poverty reduction and inclusive growth.

A serial social entrepreneur, he has helped found a financial inclusion support foundation, two micro-finance banks in Eastern Europe, the international mental health NGO, Basic Needs, and the Prison Phoenix Trust that teaches yoga and meditation to staff and inmates of UK prisons. He has also worked at the international NGO, Oxfam GB, both as their country director in Russia and as their director of strategy and innovation.