Jiren Zhou is a Portfolio Manager – Infrastructure & Real Assets at Aware Super. His responsibilities include deployment, asset management and portfolio management of Aware Super’s Infrastructure & Real Assets Portfolio.  Jiren has over 20 years’ experience in infrastructure investments and financial services, and has held senior roles in Plenary Group and AMP Capital Investors prior to joining Aware Super in 2022.  Jiren led and participated in over $19 billion of transactions in renewable, utility, transport, digital, social infrastructure and other real assets sectors across Australia, New Zealand, North America, and Asia, and successfully deployed over $10 billion capital in more than 30 deals.  Jiren is an experienced company director, held multiple board positions in portfolio companies, with a solid focus on governance, operational & ESG performance, risk and capital structure management.  Jiren started his career at Pacific Equity Partners, a leading private equity manager in Australia.

Jiren holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Master of Applied Finance degree both from Macquarie University, Sydney.  He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.  Jiren is fluent in Mandarin.