Johnny Adji

Johnny comes to Mercer with 28 years of experience in the alternative investment space. As an alternative investment specialist, he focuses on investment idea generation and due diligence, both on funds and co-investments. A thought leader in the space, he is also a frequent speaker at conferences throughout Asia.

Prior to joining Mercer, Johnny was the head of Real Asset and Private Credit for Cambridge Associates in Singapore for 12 years where he researched and diligenced real assets, private credit funds and co-investment opportunities. He was a voting member of the real assets investment committee. He was also actively involved in constructing global real assets and private credit portfolios for several Asian and select European and American pension and endowment clients into funds and coinvestments. 

Prior to joining Cambridge Associates in 2011, Johnny worked in several real estate roles such as research, valuations, buy-side/sell-side advisor, including portfolio manager and COO of Ajia Partners, an Asian value-add real estate fund and Co-Head of International Real Estate at HanaDaol Trust in Seoul. He started his career in 1996 at JLL in Indonesia and also worked for CBRE in Korea.  

In addition to English, he speaks Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese Mandarin, and Korean and has worked in Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Singapore.  

Johnny is a CFA Charterholder and he holds a Msc. Degree in Real Estate Finance from the National University of Singapore and a BBA degree in Finance and Accounting from the University of Kentucky.