Joshua Kim

Associate Portfolio Manager at CalSTRS

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Joshua Kim is an Associate Portfolio Manager within the Sustainable Investment and Stewardship Strategies (SISS) unit at the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), the largest educator-only pension fund in the world.

Mr. Kim is responsible for helping to lead the sustainable private market portfolio to further CalSTRS’ mission to secure the financial future and sustain the trust of California’s educators. Mr. Kim contributes to overseeing the SISS Portfolio, which has an opportunistic mandate to pursue investments that are additive to the Total Fund with demonstrably positive contributions to a more sustainable global economy. The SISS Portfolio invests in climate solutions across three broad risk-return profiles: (1) Infrastructure; (2) Private Credit; and (3) Private Equity. As of 9/30/2025, the SISS Portfolio had committed over $4.45 billion across 36 direct, co-investment, and fund investments spanning the three targeted risk-return profiles.

Previously, Mr. Kim served as a founding team member for The Carlyle Group’s Infrastructure Credit business, spent time at Deutsche Asset Management in the Infrastructure Debt unit, and started his career at J.P. Morgan in Investment Banking and Debt Capital Markets. Mr. Kim also spent time at Apple Inc. in the Environment & Supply Chain Innovation unit, deploying Apple’s balance sheet capital in clean energy investments across Apple’s global supply chain markets.

Mr. Kim received his Bachelor of Science degree at University of California, Berkeley and is pursuing his Master of Divinity degree at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University.