James O'Leary

Partner & Head of Infrastructure & Real Assets

Mr. O’Leary leads StepStone’s global infrastructure and real assets activities. He is also involved in various investment, management, and portfolio management activities.

Prior to joining StepStone, Mr. O’Leary founded KPMG’s infrastructure investment advisory and asset management business, which merged into StepStone in May 2016. Before that he led Colonial First State’s infrastructure, real estate, private equity and agriculture platform, which oversaw more than A$15 billion of investments. Mr. O’Leary has also held roles in corporate finance, with Gresham Partners and practiced corporate law with Clayton Utz.

Mr. O’Leary received a Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the Australian National University.

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