Affiliation
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Education
PhD, Statistics, Columbia University
Master’s, Mathematical Finance, Sorbonne University
Grande Ecole, Engineering, Télécom, Paris

Amal Moussa is a managing director at Goldman Sachs, where she leads the single stocks exotic derivatives trading desk. Prior to this, she held senior-level positions in equity derivatives trading at other leading financial institutions such as J.P. Morgan, UBS, and Citigroup.

In addition to her work in markets, Moussa is an adjunct professor at Columbia University, where she teaches a graduate course on modeling and trading derivatives in the mathematics of finance master’s program.

Moussa holds a PhD in statistics, earned with distinction from Columbia University. Her thesis, “Contagion and Systemic Risk in Financial Networks,” shed light on the importance of the network structure in identifying systemic financial institutions and formulating regulatory policies and has been cited as a reference by former Federal Reserve president Janet Yellen. Moussa was also awarded the Minghui Yu Teaching Award at Columbia University.

Prior to her PhD, Moussa graduated with a master’s in mathematical finance from Sorbonne University (former Paris VI) and a Grande Ecole engineering degree from Télécom Paris. Her studies in France were supported by the government-awarded scholarship for excellence.

Moussa was born and raised in Lebanon and is now a board member of Teach for Lebanon, an NGO working to ensure that all children have access to education in Lebanon, regardless of socioeconomic background. She is also an active member of the Women in Trading network at Goldman Sachs.