Michael Melvin

Head of Currency and Fixed Income Research, Global Market Strategies Group, Barclays Global Investors at Barclays Bank

Michael Melvin leads the GMSG Currency and Fixed Income Research team at BGI. He also serves as Co-editor of the Journal of International Money & Finance, the leading scholarly journal devoted to international finance. Prior to joining BGI in 2005, he was Professor of Economics and Dean’s Council Distinguished Scholar at Arizona State University. His research has been published in the leading academic journals, such as the American Economic Review and the Journal of Finance. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Board and the International Monetary Fund and a Visiting Professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawaii, the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, and the Department of Economics at the University of California at San Diego. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Frankfurt. He received his PhD from UCLA.