Christine Looney serves as the Ford Foundation’s deputy director of Mission Investments. In this role, she leads investments under the Foundation’s two mission investment funds – a $350 million program-related investment fund and a $1 billion mission-related investment fund. She supported Ford’s strategic planning efforts to develop a new line of work on impact investing as well as the approval of the $1 billion mission-related investment fund.

Christine has an MBA in finance and management from New York University’s Stern School of Business, a certificate in Leadership Development from Harvard Business School, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from College of the Holy Cross. She is on the board of Mission Investors Exchange, the sustainable advisory board for Glenmede, the LP advisory board for Impact Capital Managers, and serves on several private investment fund advisory committees. She is a long-standing Big Sister in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program.