Antony Bugg-Levine appointed visiting fellow at the Marshall Institute

Marshall Institute Appoints Impact Investing Pioneer Antony Bugg-Levine as Visiting Senior Fellow

The Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship at LSE is pleased to announce the appointment of Antony Bugg-Levine as a Visiting Senior Fellow.

Antony is a globally recognised pioneer of impact investing - having led the Rockefeller Foundation initiative that helped coin the term, co-authored the first book in the field, and co-founded the Global Impact Investing Network. His career bridges theory and practice: he has served as CEO of one of the US’ largest CDFIs, co-led a major Community Impact team in asset management, and now advises foundations and family offices through his firm, Bugg-Levine, Inc.

He is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and author of the forthcoming Investing in America (Wiley, 2026).

Antony will join the Impact Economy Project at the London School of Economics, which explores how private action - from investors, businesses, and philanthropies - can help solve major social and environmental challenges at scale.

Within the Project, he will lead new thinking on capital market shaping, focused on how mainstream capital markets can be redesigned so that more capital flows, reliably and at scale, to solutions that improve lives and protect the planet.

About the Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship

The Marshall Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science is a leading centre for research, education, and catalytic action in philanthropy, social entrepreneurship and the impact economy. Through its academic programmes, research initiatives, and global partnerships, the Institute equips current and future leaders with the knowledge and skills to create lasting social impact.