SAMIM GHAMAMI

Samim Ghamami is currently the Senior Economist and Vice President at the Financial Services Forum, a senior researcher at UC Berkeley Center for Risk Management Research, an Adjunct Professor of Finance at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics at Columbia University.

Ghamami has been a senior financial economist and a senior Vice President at Goldman Sachs. He has also been an Acting Associate Director and a senior economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Financial Research, and an economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Ghamami’s research has broadly focused on financial economics and more recently on the interplay between finance and macroeconomics. His work on banking and central clearing has been presented and discussed at central banks. He has been an advisor to the Bank for International Settlements and has worked as an expert with the Financial Stability Board on post-financial crisis reforms in 2016 and 2017. Ghamami has also served on the National Science Foundation panel on Financial Mathematics in 2017 and 2018.

Ghamami has also been a visiting scholar at the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley, a senior quantitative researcher at MSCI, a quantitative researcher at Barclays Capital, an Adjunct Professor at USC, and a post-doctoral researcher at CREATE Homeland Security Center.

Ghamami received his Ph.D. in Mathematical Finance and Operations Research from the University of Southern California in 2009, where his principal advisor was Sheldon Ross.

His publications have appeared in different journals including Management Science, Journal of Applied Probability, Mathematics of Operations Research, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Credit Risk, Journal of Derivatives, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, Quantitative Finance, Journal of Risk, and International Journal of Financial Engineering.