Luke Burgis

Luke Burgis is a veteran entrepreneur and author. He is the founder and director of CLUNY, a multidisciplinary organization that integrates intellectual, spiritual, and practical knowledge (including business and technological)—that is a home to people seeking more meaningful ways to work and live. Luke studied business at NYU Stern before doing graduate work in philosophy and earning an S.T.B. in Theology from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. He’s the author of The One and the Ninety-Nine: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion and Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life, which popularized the work of cultural anthropologist René Girard.