Derek Jun, CFA^®, FRM

Derek serves as Head of Investment Risk for Nuveen Natural Capital and Impact Private Equity, where he is responsible for risk oversight of funds and directly managed by Nuveen. He participates in investment committee meetings as a non-voting member. He is a co-chair of the Real Assets Operating Oversight Committee.

Additionally, Derek serves as the Head of Climate Risk Oversight for Nuveen and TIAA. Derek is responsible for leading integration of climate-related risks into risk management frameworks. He also provides oversight into various climate risk management frameworks employed by investment teams across Nuveen’s platform.

Lastly, Derek serves as Head of Nuveen Operational Risk. In this capacity he leads the operational risk oversight function covering all business areas of Nuveen. The team is responsible for effective challenge with business risk owners as well as monitoring and reporting to Nuveen leadership, risk committees and TIAA enterprise stakeholders.

Prior to joining the firm in 2015, Derek worked with Salient Partners in New York as an equity analyst covering natural resource sectors and at UBS as a quantitative analyst. He began his career in 2005 at Wachovia in its investment banking division focused on structured products.

Derek graduated with an A.B. in Economics with certificates in Finance and Computational Mathematics from Princeton University and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst®, CAIA and FRM designations. Derek is a steering committee member for the Climate research program for the Society of Actuaries; board member for Global Energy Transition, a non-profit for job seekers in the energy sector; and volunteer with the Global Association of Risk Professionals.