Nancy Curtin, Chief Investment Officer of AlTi Tiedemann Global, is quietly shaping one of the most consequential shifts in modern philanthropy.
Overseeing more than $80 billion in client assets, Curtin guides families whose wealth is increasingly being directed toward impact and legacy.
Industry observers estimate that $20–30 billion under her oversight is earmarked for philanthropic giving, social impact, and values-aligned investment.
Curtin’s influence resonates well beyond her firm.
Family offices globally now steward $3 trillion—twice the size of the university endowment market—and are rapidly becoming engines of global giving.
By advising ultra-high-net-worth families, particularly the rising generation of women inheritors, she helps transform vast pools of private capital into long-term philanthropic commitments.
At the heart of her approach is a shift in mindset: wealth as a means of shaping purpose.
“What’s the legacy you want to leave on this planet?” she asks clients, urging them to move beyond financial returns.
Increasingly, that legacy takes the form of climate action, education initiatives, women’s empowerment, and healthcare innovation—areas where her clients see the greatest potential for systemic change.
Her strategies integrate private markets, clean energy, and transformative technologies like AI and quantum computing—allocations that both grow capital and fund societal change.
With well over $100 trillion in wealth transfer now underway, Curtin is positioned at the nexus of finance and philanthropy.
Her work reframes giving not as charity, but as strategic capital deployment, redirecting tens of billions into initiatives that will define the next generation of global philanthropy.
