6th Annual News & Finance Conference

Charles W. Calomiris is Henry Kaufman Professor Emeritus of Financial Institutions in the Faculty of Business and Professor Emeritus of International and Public Affairs at Columbia Business School, Director of the Business School’s Program for Financial Studies Initiative on Finance and Growth in Emerging Markets, and a professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. His research spans the areas of banking, corporate finance, financial history, and monetary economics.

Sanjiv Das is the William and Janice Terry Professor of Finance and Data Science at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business, and an Amazon Scholar at AWS.

Coral del Mar Murphy Marcos is a print business journalist based in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. She completed her M.A. in Journalism at U.C. Berkeley in 2022.

Bryan Kelly is Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management, a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Associate Director of SOM’s International Center for Finance, and is the head of machine learning at AQR Capital Management, LLC.

Prof. Kogan is an Associate Professor of Finance, with positions at IDC Herzliya and the Wharton School. He was on the faculty at MIT Sloan, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Texas at Austin, and Duke. He held several investment management positions and board advisory roles. He earned his MBA and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and his BA from Tel Aviv University.

Dr. Mickey Levy is chief US economist of Berenberg Capital Markets. Formerly, he was chief economist of Bank of America. He is a long-standing member of the Shadow Open Market Committee and is on the Advisory Board of the Office of Financial Research (OFR). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Affairs and the Economic Club of New York. Dr. Levy’s research, which appears in numerous policy journals, focuses on monetary and fiscal policies and how they affect global economic and financial performance. Dr.

Nida Çakır Melek is a senior economist in the Economic Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. She joined the Bank in August 2013 after receiving her Ph.D. from UCLA. She holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey and an M.A. degree in Economics from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Her primary areas of research are macroeconomics, international economics, and energy economics.

Jeffrey Meli is a Managing Director and Co-Head of FICC Research at Barclays, based in New York. He assumed his current role in February 2013. Mr. Meli oversees the Credit, Emerging Markets, Foreign Exchange and Technical Strategy research teams globally and continues to serve as a publishing analyst.

Duane J. Seppi, is a BNY Mellon Professor of Finance; he is the Head, M.S. in Computational Finance Program, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon.

See his profile HERE.