Arjun Mahalingam

Chief Financial Officer

19 years experience

Arjun Mahalingam has served as our Chief Financial Officer since December 2022. Prior to joining Cohen & Steers in 2022, Mr. Mahalingam served in various roles at W.P. Carey Inc., a large publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust, from November 2013 to November 2022, including as Chief Accounting Officer from September 2016 to November 2022. In this role, he was responsible for the accounting, financial reporting and internal controls of the company. He also concurrently served as the Chief Accounting Officer of Corporate Property Associates 18 – Global Incorporated, a publicly owned non-traded REIT managed by a subsidiary of W.P. Carey Inc., from July 2019 through its merger with W.P. Carey Inc. in August 2022. Prior to joining W.P. Carey Inc., Mr. Mahalingam worked from 2005 to 2013 in the assurance practice at Ernst & Young LLP. He graduated with a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst and holds a M.S. in Accounting from the University of Virginia. Mr. Mahalingam is a Certified Public Accountant and a CFA charterholder and is based in New York.