John Werner Kluge

John Kluge is an entrepreneur, author, and social activist. He is the Co-Founder of Toilet Hackers, a grassroots organization building a global movement for sanitation and hygiene. He has spent 10 years working in policy and development. During this time John founded the Youth Safety & Citizenship program as part of the Worldwide Cybersecurity Initiative at the EastWest Institute, an international global security organization. He also spearheaded the drafting and lobbying efforts of the Federal Food Donation Act of 2008 while serving as the Legislative Liaison for a US based anti-poverty agency, improving the food security of 36 million under-served people in the United States.

John serves on the selection committee for the IA-50, the first publicly available database of experienced private debt and equity impact investment fund managers. He is also on the Board of the Foundry 47 Foundation and has served as a Director for Pencils of Promise, UNICEF's Next Generation, & the Stan Lee Foundation. He is the co-author of Charity and Philanthropy for Dummies and is a contributor to Forbes and the Huffington Post.