Cooper Renfro

Cooper is a Director at Social Finance with over 15 years of senior leadership experience in impact-focused organisations. Since joining in 2014, he has led strategic and technical design initiatives that explore innovative finance solutions to enhance the transparency, accountability, and effectiveness of development finance. He currently leads the organisation’s People & Planet strategy, advancing innovative finance solutions that support social-centric climate action.

Previously, Cooper served as Director of Conservation Finance & Enterprise at Fauna & Flora, leading efforts to mobilise innovative finance for conservation across the organisation’s global programme portfolio.

Cooper has also held a non-executive directorship at Wefarm, a social enterprise that helped democratise access to information and markets for smallholder farmers in East Africa. Additionally, he has provided strategic advisory support to UK-based charities developing earned-income programming.

Before joining Social Finance, Cooper worked in the programme development division of a US-based refugee resettlement organisation. He holds an MBA from Cambridge University, an MA from Harvard University, and a BA from Carleton College.