Samim Ghamami is an economist, strategist, and researcher. He is a recipient of the SEC Chair’s Award for Excellence because of his work on US Treasury market reforms. The Award recognizes individuals who have displayed exceptional commitment to excellence and produced exceptional improvements in the SEC’s programs or management.
Ghamami is a senior researcher and an adjunct professor of finance at New York University and a member of the Economic Club of New York and the Bretton Woods Committee. He is also a senior advisor at SOFR Academy. Ghamami has worked as a senior economist at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with the SEC Chair and leadership team on the reform of the US Treasury market and several other capital market initiatives. He has also been a senior economist and a senior strategist at Goldman Sachs and Millennium Management.
Ghamami has been an adjunct professor of economics at Columbia University and a senior researcher at UC Berkeley Center for Risk Management Research and the Department of Economics. In 2019, Ghamami moved to the Financial Services Forum through Goldman Sachs, where he was the senior economist and managing director. Ghamami 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 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Ghamami’s work has broadly focused on the interplay of finance and macroeconomics, and on quantitative finance and financial economics. His work on asset management, economic policy, financial stability, financial regulation, banking, digital asset markets, private credit, and central clearing has been presented and discussed at central banks, international financial institutions, and has been highlighted by the Financial Times and Risk.net. He has discussed and presented his work at the CNBC, Financial Times’ Global Banking Summit and the Financial Times’ Outstanding Directors Exchange events. Ghamami 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. He has served on the National Science Foundation panels on Financial Mathematics and has also served on the advisory board of the Mathematics in Finance Program at NYU Courant Institute.
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 including Management Science, Journal of Applied Probability, Mathematics of Operations Research, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Credit Risk, Journal of Derivatives, Probability in Engineering and Informational Sciences, Quantitative Finance, Journal of Risk, International Journal of Financial Engineering, and Journal of Financial Market Infrastructures. Ghamami holds a Master of Science (2003) from the University of Tehran in Operations Research and a Bachelor of Science (2000) from the Iran University of Science and Technology in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering.