Melanie Mortimer

Background

About Melanie Mortimer

Melanie Mortimer is President of the SIFMA Foundation, the nation’s leader in youth investor and financial education that ensures all young people, regardless of background, have access to transformative knowledge and tools to prepare for their financial futures. Prior to joining the SIFMA Foundation, Mortimer was Merrill Lynch’s Director of Global Philanthropy, managing signature programs focused on financial literacy, global citizenship, and entrepreneurship for millions of youth across 70 countries and the firm’s arts and culture grants, educational scholarship programs, skills-based volunteer initiatives, and global team-building community events. Prior to that, Mortimer led employee, shareholder and executive communications for the international business arm of multi-billion dollar trading firm Itochu Corporation in Japan and served as Senior Editor and Contributing Writer in her four years at Tokyo Journal magazine.