Melina Denebeim

Ms. Denebeim co-directs the Program for Financial Studies (PFS) and the Master of Science in Financial Economics degree program (MSFE). She joined CBS in 2014 after eight years in capital markets and investment banking roles, including Credit Suisse and Guggenheim Securities. In the MSFE program, she teaches effective communication seminars for EMBA and MBA students, and she facilitated an NYC immersion course titled “Creative Destruction in Financial Services”. She also co-authored a Columbia CaseWorks technical note on LBO Valuation. 

Ms. Denebeim earned an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in English Literature from Georgetown University. She is an innovation fellow through the Lang Center at Columbia Business School and an advisor to Savvy Ladies, an organization that provides free financial education and resources to women with the goal of empowering them to achieve financial independence.