Nicholas Colloff

NICHOLAS COLLOFF, when not posting art on Facebook or walking through the woods, is the Director of the Argidius Foundation, a Swiss family foundation that helps develop social and environmental enterprises, principally in Africa and Latin America. He studied theology, philosophy and the psychology of religion at university, after which he helped found the Prison Phoenix Trust that teaches meditation and yoga to people in prison, and from this discovered a gift for starting things (and leaving them in better hands so they flourished). This has included a microfinance bank in the Balkans, a charity focused on community mental health in poor communities in the Global South and a social investment fund. In between launches, he is also to be found in contemplative communities recovering!