Samim Ghamami

Samim Ghamami is a prominent economist and academic researcher working at the intersection of finance and macroeconomics. Currently serving as an economist at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and an Adjunct Professor at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, he has held academic roles at Columbia University, UC Berkeley, and the University of Southern California. His work focuses on financial stability, quantitative finance, risk management, digital asset markets, and macroeconomic policy.

• Ph.D. in Finance and Operations Research from University of Southern California (2009)
• M.Sc. in Operations Research from University of Tehran (2003)
• B.Sc. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology (2000)

His research spans advanced financial technologies, systemic risk, and regulatory frameworks, with a particular emphasis on central counterparty (CCP) risk, collateral mechanisms, and market structure reforms. His recent publications analyze extreme value theory applications to financial institutions and systemic risk allocation in complex networks.

Ghamami’s academic output reveals trends in financial engineering, risk modeling, and macro-financial linkages. He has developed innovative approaches to counterparty risk quantification and network reliability estimation.

• Recipient of SEC Chair’s Award for Excellence (2020) for Treasury market reforms
• INFORMS 2013 Best Presentation Award

As an advisor to the Bank for International Settlements and expert for the Financial Stability Board, he has shaped post-crisis capital market reforms. His teaching portfolio includes graduate-level courses in asset pricing, risk management, and financial economics at NYU, Columbia, and UC Berkeley.