William 'Bill' Burckart

William Burckart is the CEO of The Investment Integration Project (TIIP) and an Adjunct Professor and the Brandmeyer Fellow for Impact and Sustainable Investing at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). A leading voice in system-level investing, he is a Fellow of the High Meadows Institute, associate editor of the forthcoming Handbook on System-level Investing (Miniver Press, 2026), and co-author of 21st Century Investing: Redirecting Financial Strategies to Drive Systems Change (Berrett-Koehler, 2021). He also co-edited New Frontiers of Philanthropy (Oxford University Press, 2014), a landmark volume on emerging tools reshaping global philanthropy and social investment.

Previously, he co-founded Colorful Capital, a venture capital firm dedicated to expanding access to capital for enterprises founded and led by members of the broader LGBTQ+ community.