SAMIM GHAMAMI

Samim Ghamami is currently an economist at the Securities and Exchange Commission where he has been working with the SEC Chair and leadership team on the reform of the Treasury market and several other capital market initiatives.  Ghamami is a recipient of the SEC Chair’s Award for Excellence due to his work on Treasury market reforms. He is a member of the Economic Club of New York, the Bretton Woods Committee, and a senior advisor at SOFR Academy. He has been a senior researcher at UC Berkeley Department of Economics and the Center for Risk Management Research and has served on the advisory board of the Mathematics in Finance Program at NYU Courant Institute. 

Ghamami has been a senior economist and a senior strategist at Goldman Sachs and at Millennium Management. He has been an adjunct associate professor of economics at Columbia University. In 2019, Ghamami moved to the Financial Services Forum through Goldman Sachs, where he was the senior economist and managing director. He has also been an associate director and a senior economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Financial Research, and an economist at the Federal Reserve Board.

Ghamami’s work has broadly focused on the interplay of finance and macroeconomics. His work on asset management, banking, macroeconomic policy, financial stability, financial regulation, central clearing, and digital asset markets has been presented and discussed at central banks and international financial institutions. Ghamami has discussed his work on Treasury markets, interest rates, inflation, and public debt at the Mercatus Center’s Macro Musings Podcast, MNI’s Market News & Fed Speak Podcast, and Moody’s Inside Economics Podcast. In his 2020-2021 research carried out for PIMCO, he anticipated the joint impact of the Fed’s revised monetary policy framework and the Covid-driven fiscal stimulus on inflation and stock-bond return correlation. He has also discussed his work at the Financial Times’ Global Banking Summit and the FT’s Outstanding Directors Exchange. Ghamami has been an advisor to the Bank for International Settlements and has worked as an expert with the Financial Stability Board on consequential post-financial crisis capital market reforms. He also served on the National Science Foundation panel on Financial Mathematics in 2017 and 2018.

Ghamami has been a visiting scholar at the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley, a financial economist at Barclays, an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, and a post-doctoral researcher at the CREATE Homeland Security Center. Ghamami received his Ph.D. in Finance and Operations Research from USC in 2009. His publications have appeared in top academic and practitioner journals.