Real Assets & Private Equity: A Blackstone Perspective | Real Estate Luminaries 2025

As part of its annual Real Estate Luminaries Series, the Steers Center for Global Real Assets at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business hosted Jonathan Gray, president and chief operating officer at Blackstone, and Joseph Baratta (B’93), global head of private equity strategies at Blackstone. In a fireside chat titled “Real Assets & Private Equity: A Blackstone Perspective,” moderated by Robert Steers (B’75, P’06, ’08, ’10), Gray and Baratta discussed their roles in leading Blackstone to become the largest commercial real estate platform and one of the premier private equity groups in the world today.