Jeanne Milliken Bonds

Jeanne Milliken Bonds is Professor of the Practice, Impact Investment, and Sustainable Finance; UNC Kenan Flagler Business School. She is leading a new initiative there “Invest to Sustain,” to increase community and business capacity to enact social impact investing. Jeanne is the former Senior Leader in Regional Community Development for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. In her previous role, she provided leadership for strategic stakeholder collaboration and community-level solutions, focusing on low- and moderate-income and underserved communities in support of the Federal Reserve System’s Community Development function. Jeanne led several Federal Reserve System teams, including a team focused on the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and a team focused on rural policy issues. She has a B.A. in Economics and an M.P.A. (concentration in public policy) from the University of N.C. at Chapel Hill. In 1997, she was North Carolina’s recipient of the national Henry Toll Fellowship from the Council of State Governments.