Mr. Luca Bucken

Luca Bucken is the Executive Director for Government Relations at 500 Global, where he focuses on building long-term sovereign finance partnerships to drive national transformation in emerging economies. He has spent the last decade shaping government relations, innovative financing, and resource mobilization strategies for governments, global foundations, and impact-first organizations across Africa, the Caribbean, Asia, and Europe, including fragile and conflict-affected countries such as Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, and Syria. Most recently, he was the Founding Partner of a strategic advisory firm with clients including BMW, the Gates Foundation, Google, and NBA Africa, as well as Ministers, Nobel laureates, and Oscar-awarded creatives.