Chris Steinbaugh

Chris is a Senior Director on the Private Equity Impact Team at Nuveen and joined the group in March 2019. He is primarily responsible for originating, underwriting and executing transactions for the team’s Resource Efficiency strategy.

He has also been involved with a portfolio of Nuveen’s direct private equity investments in the agribusiness sector and with the firm’s private junior debt capital team. Prior to joining Nuveen in 2014, Chris worked for eleQtra, a London-based developer of infrastructure projects in Africa, where he helped develop an irrigated farming project in Zambia. Chris previously worked for Obrem Capital Management, an alternative investment manager, and Evercore Partners, an investment banking advisory firm.

Chris graduated with an A.B. from Princeton University, an M.B.A. from London Business School, and an M.S.c. in Water Science, Policy, and Management from the University of Oxford.