Catherine is a managing director for the Portfolio Solutions Group at MSIM and the Co-Head of fundamental investment research across public and private markets. In addition to having oversight of fundamental research for the team, Catherine is a member of the real assets investment committee. She has 21 years of industry experience. Before joining the Investment Management division, Catherine worked as an associate in Morgan Stanley's Real Estate Private Capital Markets Group, focusing on private real estate fund formation throughout Europe. Prior to joining the firm, Catherine was an associate with Citigroup Property Investors in New York, where she evaluated global real estate fund investments for the firm's real estate multi-manager platform and the Citigroup Pension Plan. She began her career as an analyst in the Real Estate Finance and Global Principal Investment groups at Merrill Lynch in New York. Catherine received a B.A. cum laude in Economics and Art History from Wellesley College and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.