Julie Manning is the Global Head of Sustainability at LaSalle. She is responsible for leading the firm’s strategic efforts to drive and protect investment performance by decarbonizing and enhancing resiliency of LaSalle’s investment portfolios. Julie is also Co-Fund Manager of the LaSalle Property Planet Protection Fund (Lp3F), an investment approach aiming to provide clients accretive risk-adjusted returns via decarbonization investment strategies.

Julie joined LaSalle in 1997, originally in the client accounting group as a controller, transitioning to portfolio management responsible for two global fund-of-funds totaling over US $1 billion of investor capital. She was then a portfolio manager in LaSalle’s North America custom accounts business, managing over $4 billion of client capital.

Julie earned a Bachelor of Science in accountancy from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois and holds a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation. She is currently a member of the advisory board for ULI’s Randall Lewis Center for Sustainability in Real Estate.