Luke Burgis join The Catholic University of America in 2017 as Entrepreneur-in-Residence in the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship. He is Assistant Professor of Practice in the Busch School of Business and Director of the Cluny Project, a multidiscplinary public engagement venture bridging the divide between "Athens, Jerusalem, and Silicon Valley."

Previously, Mr. Burgis worked in the investment banking industries in New York and Hong Kong, as well as in the private equity industry with a focus on energy and power investments. He three companies ranging from technology to food distribution and consumer products.

He is the author of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life (St. Martin's Press, 2021), and the book The One and the Ninety-Nine: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion (St. Martin's Press, 2026). He writes weekly on the popular Luke Burgis Newsletter on Substack about the intersection of technology, philosophy, literature, and spirituality.

Mr. Burgis holds a B.S. from the Stern School of Business at New York University, a Certificate in Philosophy from St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, CA, and an S.T.B. in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.

Inquiries about his availability for speaking, workshops, or consulting engagements should be made on his personal website, lukeburgis.com.

“It’s not enough to know what is good and true. Goodness and truth need to be attractive—in other words, desirable.”

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