Primary Job Title Executive Director Primary Organization 
Rady School of Management
Location La Jolla, California, United States Regions Greater San Diego Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Michael Melvin is Executive Director of the Master of Finance program at the Rady School of Management, University of California San Diego. Prior to his recent return to academia, he spent many years as a Managing Director at BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors (BGI). At BGI, he was head of currency hedge funds and head of currency and fixed
income research. After BlackRock acquired BGI he was Senior Research Advisor in the Executive Group of Multi-Asset Strategies. His prior academic role included teaching a quant currency investing class in the Master of Financial Engineering program at U.C. Berkeley. Earlier roles include Fulbright Scholar in Germany and visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Board, the BIS, and the IMF.
