Kirsty Jenkinson is the Senior Investment Director for Private Markets and Sustainable Investment and Stewardship Strategies (SISS) at CalSTRS, the largest global educator-only public pension fund with an investment portfolio valued at over $350 billion. Kirsty sits on the Investment Branch Senior Management Team and is responsible for overseeing the Private Equity, Real Estate, Inflation Sensitive, Collaborative Strategies and SISS teams, representing approximately $140 billion in assets and over 100 people.
Prior to CalSTRS, Kirsty was a managing director at Wespath Benefits and Investments in Chicago and at the World Resources Institute (WRI), a Washington, D.C.-based research organization focused on the environment and economic development. Before moving to the United States, Kirsty worked at F&C Asset Management (now Columbia Threadneedle Investments) and in the Fixed Income division of Goldman Sachs in London.
Kirsty is a board observer for Generate Capital and Just Climate. She sits on the boards of Ceres and the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre and is a member of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) Investor Advisory Group. Kirsty holds an M.A. degree in international history from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.