Biography
Antony Bugg-Levine has spent 25 years working on a question that cuts across politics and ideology: how do we put the world's vast investment capital to work solving our deepest problems?
He convened the Rockefeller Foundation meeting that coined the term "impact investing" in 2007, co-founded the Global Impact Investing Network, and co-wrote the field's first book. He also led one of the US's largest community finance institutions for nearly a decade, co-led the community impact team and policy arm of an asset management firm, and helped Fortune 100 CEOs sharpen their corporate strategy.
Today, through Bugg-Levine, Inc., he supports foundations and family offices to become more discerning, decisive, and ambitious impact investors.
A third-generation Southern African, he began his professional path in post-apartheid South Africa, where he worked at the Human Rights Commission and wrote speeches for President Nelson Mandela and other African National Congress leaders. He later ran the Kenya and Uganda teams of a global nonprofit, seeing firsthand the promise of expanding access to fair finance.
Antony earned a BA from Yale and a Master's in Public Administration from Princeton and is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School. He has held fellowships with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the London School of Economics, and Renaissance Philanthropy, and was named one of the 50 most influential people in the US nonprofit sector by Nonprofit Times.
This book is one grateful immigrant's 250th-birthday gift to the country that has given him and his family so much.
He lives in New Jersey with his wife and daughter.