Jon Cheigh, Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer, leads the investment department of Cohen & Steers, a leading global investment manager specializing in real assets and alternative income . Mr. Cheigh joined the company in 2005 as a REIT senior analyst and has served as a portfolio manager since 2008. He was appointed Chief Investment Officer in 2019 and served as Head of Global Real Estate from 2012 to 2023. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Cheigh was a vice president and senior REIT analyst at Security Capital Research & Management. Prior to that, he was a vice president of real estate acquisitions at InterPark and an acquisitions associate at Urban Growth Property Trust, two privately held real estate companies incubated by Security Capital Group. Mr. Cheigh started his career at Deloitte & Touche.
Outside of Cohen & Steers, Mr. Cheigh is an appointed member of NAREIT’s Real Estate Investment Advisory Council Chairperson’s Cabinet and he is on the Advisory Board of the Applied Real Estate Investment Track program at the University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Business. Mr. Cheigh holds a BA degree cum laude in Political Economy from Williams College and an MBA degree in International Finance and Entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago.