Melissa Lockett

Master of Public Policy
2021

I am joining the MPP with more than a decade of financial advisory experience spanning corporate mergers and acquisitions, healthcare equity research, retail banking strategy, and real estate. Most recently, I was a Vice President at Citi Community Capital where I partnered with for-profit and non-profit real estate developers, governmental agencies, and financing firms to deliver affordable housing that benefited vulnerable populations across the US. These deals preserved 11,000+ affordable units and financed the new construction of 7,300+ mixed-income units, as well as ancillary commercial, community facility, parking, office, and health care space.

While at the Blavatnik School of Government, I intend to focus on public private partnerships and reshaping capitalism with a focus on shared prosperity in order to close the widening gap of wealth inequality. Additional interests include trust in democratic institutions, education, healthcare, climate change, and women’s empowerment.