Omar Ghalloudi is a Senior Managing Director and Head of European Trading in Mesirow Institutional Sales and Trading. He is an experienced credit trader with more than 20 years of expertise in investment-grade, high-yield, and distressed debt markets. Omar has held significant roles at top financial institutions such as Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and Citi, where he successfully managed trading desks, launched new business initiatives and oversaw credit portfolios across Europe and emerging markets.

His areas of expertise encompass sovereign and corporate credit, REITs, corporate hybrids and covered bonds.

Omar has been actively involved in trading European and U.S. financials during the financial crisis and in the integration of trading books after the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch merger. 

He also established a leading position in Greek government bond trading during the European Sovereign crisis, including Greece's return to the capital markets. Most recently, he led a team focused on distressed and illiquid assets across Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.  

Omar holds an MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Twente in the Netherlands and is fluent in English, French, Italian and Dutch.