Partners Group, the global private markets investment manager, is pleased to announce that Charles Dallara, currently Managing Director of the Institute of International Finance (IIF), will join the firm as a Partner, based in the United States, and will further assume the role of Chairman of the Americas. In addition, the board of directors will propose Mr. Dallara as a new board member and Vice Chairman of the board of directors of Partners Group Holding AG at the annual general meeting of shareholders on 2 May 2013. Mr. Dallara has been the Managing Director of the IIF since 1993 and recently announced his intention to step down from this position after developing the institute for close to twenty years. Prior to assuming his role at the IIF, Mr. Dallara held a number of senior positions in the Reagan and Bush 41 Administrations. He held the following positions in the George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan administrations: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Policy Development and Senior Advisor for Policy to the Secretary of the Treasury, United States Executive Director of the IMF, and, concurrently, Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Economic Policy and US Alternate Executive Director at the IMF. He holds a Master of Arts, a Master of Arts in Law & Diplomacy and a PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA, and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of South Carolina, USA.