Rory O'Connor

Rory O'Connor, Managing Director, is the Global Chief Investment Officer and leads the European investment and portfolio management activities for BlackRock's Renewable Power Group which currently has $5.0 billion of equity assets under management in the renewable power sector globally. Mr. O'Connor is also the CIO of BlackRock's Renewable Income products in the UK and Europe (Renewable Income UK, Renewable Income Europe), and also manages BlackRock's renewable power investments in Europe as part of BlackRock's Global Renewable Power portfolios. Mr. O'Connor has managed the investment by BlackRock in over 110 wind and solar projects in Europe since joining BlackRock 2011, at the establishment of BlackRock's Renewable Power Group. In 2019, in addition to his role as Head of Europe, Mr. O'Connor was appointed to the role of Global Chief Investment Officer for BlackRock Renewable Power.

Prior to joining BlackRock in 2011, Mr. O'Connor was Group Treasurer, Head of Corporate Finance, and a member of the Group Executive senior management team at NTR plc where he managed investment, financing, portfolio management and investment realization programs in renewable energy and sustainable waste management and infrastructure, including investments in and the sale of Airtricity and NTR's monetization of its toll road infrastructure assets. Previously, Mr. O'Connor served as Director of Strategic Planning, at Elan Corporation plc, and worked in the M&A Division of Morgan Stanley International in London.

Mr. O'Connor earned a first-class degree in International Commerce from University College Dublin in 1997 and a Master in Business Administration from INSEAD in 2001. Mr. O'Connor also graduated from the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2009.