Elham Saeidinezhad is a Doctoral Lecturer in Finance at the Colin Powell School, City College of New York (CCNY). She also teaches graduate courses on capital markets at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and in the Economics Department at NYU Stern. She teaches finance and monetary econoics courses. Her research focuses on market microstructure—how trading mechanisms, liquidity design, and financial infrastructures shape market outcomes and systemic stability.

She is the founder of the Market Microstructure Project, an independent platform that brings together academics, practitioners, and policymakers to examine structural changes in modern financial infrastructures and their implications for financial systems. Before joining CCNY, she taught finance at Barnard College, Columbia University, and in the Economics Department at UCLA. Prior to academia, she worked as a research economist on capital markets at the Milken Institute in Santa Monica. She earned her Ph.D. in Empirical Macroeconomics from the University of Sheffield, UK. She is originally from Shiraz, Iran.

• The Covenant Structure of Yield in Private Credit
• A Hierarchical-Dealer-Centric Model of FX Swap Valuation
• Banks as Synthetic Hedge Funds 

Her full SSRN page is available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=4590946

• Market Microstructure Project
• Market Microstructure Annual Symposium