 : IPE Real Estate Global Conference & Awards 2021

Gianluca Romano is a managing director and Global Head of Indirect Capital Research at JLL. He has over 25 years of consulting and investment management experience. Prior to JLL, he was a partner of StepStone Real Estate, and previously a member and managing director of Courtland Partners, which was acquired by StepStone. At StepStone and Courtland, Romano was a member of the management and investment committees and led Courtland’s efforts in Europe including as a director of the firm’s UK subsidiary. He has also served as a private equity real estate portfolio manager first with the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds and then with ABN AMRO, managing distressed real estate portfolios in Europe with approximately €5bn in gross book value representing over €1bn of invested capital. Romano earned an A.B. in Mathematics and Economics from Duke University, holds a master’s in European Integration from the University of Amsterdam and a master’s in economics from Miami University.

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