Antony Bugg-Levine is a globally recognized impact investing leader, strategist, and communicator. He advises asset owners 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, published in July 2026.
He 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 and co-led the Community Impact and policy arm of an asset management firm.
A third-generation Southern African, he worked in the late 1990s as a speechwriter for President Nelson Mandela and other African National Congress leaders.
Antony holds a BA from Yale and MPA from Princeton. He is an adjunct professor at the Columbia Business School, a Senior Visiting Fellow at London School of Economics and Renaissance Philanthropy.
He is motivated by the question "how can we harness investment assets to scale solutions?" and by a fundamental belief that each generation is called to renew the promise of the American Dream.