Antony Bugg-Levine is a globally recognized impact investing leader, strategist, and communicator with 25 years of experience investing capital for impact. He currently advises foundations and family offices to become more discerning, decisive, and ambitious impact investors as Managing Director of Bugg-Levine, Inc. He is the author of Investing in America: Expanding Access to Finance to Solve our Shared Challenges (Wiley, June 2026).

Mr. Bugg-Levine designed and led the Rockefeller Foundation’s impact investing initiative, convened the 2007 meeting that coined the term “impact investing,” co-founded the Global Impact Investing Network, and wrote the first book on impact investing. He also led one of the U.S.’s largest community finance institutions for almost 10 years and co-led the Community Impact team and policy arm of an asset management firm. 

A third-generation Southern African, he worked in the late 1990s at the South African Human Rights Commission and as a speechwriter for President Nelson Mandela and other African National Congress leaders. He later led the Kenya and Uganda offices of the international nonprofit, Technoserve, based in Nairobi. 

Mr. Bugg-Levine holds a BA from Yale and MPA from Princeton. He is an adjunct professor at the Columbia Business School and has held fellowships with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the London School of Economics, and Renaissance Philanthropy. He was named one of the 50 most powerful and influential people in the US nonprofit sector by Nonprofit Times.

He is motivated by the question, “what will it take to harness the world’s vast investment assets to scale social and environmental solutions?” and by a fundamental belief that each generation is called to renew the promise of the American Dream.

Mr. Bugg-Levine lives in New Jersey with his wife and daughter.