John W Kluge Jr

John W. Kluge Jr. is a social entrepreneur and impact investor. He is Founder and Managing Director of the Refugee Investment Network, the first impact investing and blended finance collaborative dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global forced migration. Previously, he co-founded the Alight Fund, an investment and financing company for refugee entrepreneurs, Toilet Hackers, a social enterprise dedicated to scaling access to dignified sanitation for the 2.5 billion people without a toilet. Mr. Kluge serves as a Trustee of Babson College, a member of the Center for Strategic International Studies’ Taskforce on Global Forced Migration, as a Director for the Fonderie 47 Foundation, as a Director for the New Hill Development Corporation, and as a member of the Human Rights Commission of Charlottesville, Virginia. He is the co-author of Charity and Philanthropy for Dummies, the author of John Kluge: Stories, and has written about the intersection of business and social impact for Forbes and Conscious Company Magazine. Kluge holds a B.A. from Columbia University and an MBA from the Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business. Mr. Kluge is the son of John W. Kluge Sr., who immigrated to the U.S. from Germany in 1922 (via Ellis Island) and Patricia Kluge, who fled Iraq as a political refugee in the late 1950s and immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s.