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Robert H. Steers
Chairperson
46 years experience
Robert H. Steers, a director since December 2022 and our Chairperson, also serves as Executive Chairman of Cohen & Steers. Mr. Steers served as Cohen & Steers’ Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chairman until 2014 and then served as its Chief Executive Officer until 2022. Prior to co-founding Cohen & Steers in 1986 with Martin Cohen, Mr. Steers was a Senior Vice President and the Chief Investment Officer of National Securities and Research Corporation from 1982 to 1986, where, in 1985, he and Mr. Cohen organized and managed the nation’s first real estate securities mutual fund. From 1977 to 1982, Mr. Steers was a Vice President at Citibank, serving as an Analyst and Portfolio Manager of Citibank’s Emerging Growth Stock Fund. Mr. Steers is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Steers Center for Global Real Estate and is a member of the Endowment Investment Committee of Georgetown University, as well as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Staff Retirement Plan of the International Monetary Fund. Mr. Steers previously served as a Vice President of Cohen & Steers Securities, LLC until 2022 and as director and chairman of each of the company’s U.S. registered open-end and closed-end funds until 2021. Mr. Steers has a BS degree from Georgetown University and an MBA degree from George Washington University.