Jeremy Cleaver
Head of Johannesburg Office, Director, Africa Funds, CDC Group
Jeremy has been a Director of CDC’s Funds and Capital Partnerships (FCP) business in Africa since 2011, where he is responsible for a number of fund relationships across Africa. Jeremy started his working life at CDC in London in the Africa Funds team and moved to Johannesburg to help open our office there and represent the FCP team in early 2016. In February 2018, he was appointed head of the Johannesburg office, managing both the office and CDC’s relationship with DFID, the FCO, DIT and other UK government entities. Prior to joining CDC, Jeremy worked for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Sydney as a private sector development specialist. Prior to that he worked in investment banking for Macquarie Bank and Goldman Sachs. In the first half of his career, Jeremy lived and worked in China and Hong Kong. Jeremy holds a BSFS from Georgetown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.