John Buchmann

John Buchmann serves as director of development for the Lumen Christi Institute, where he enjoys helping donors to achieve their goals in supporting the re-evangelization of American culture through our work at the University of Chicago and beyond.

John earned his M.T.S. at Duke Divinity School and Ph.D. in religious ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His dissertation engaged Adam Smith and Thomas Aquinas on the nature of justice in economic exchange, and he continues to write occasionally on topics in economic ethics and Catholic Social Thought.

John fell in love with the mission of Lumen Christi as a graduate student, and spent four years with LCI as a regional program and development associate while finishing his doctorate. After serving as associate director of the Collegium Institute at the University of Pennsylvania and executive director of the Beatrice Institute in Pittsburgh, he returned to Lumen Christi to ensure that LCI had the resources to give many other students the same transformative experience that he received as a young scholar and recent convert to the Catholic faith. A devoted father of three beautiful children, John lives near Pittsburgh and has acquired many frequent flyer miles.