About Us

Mels de Zeeuw is a research analyst II for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's community and economic development (CED) group. He supports the team's data analysis and research projects, and is passionate about using data to illuminate and illustrate stories and trends that affect low- and moderate-income groups across the Southeast. In the CED group, de Zeeuw has helped map the economic dynamism of small and midsized cities across the United States, and he has coauthored a paper that examined the distribution of philanthropic grant flows from large foundations. Prior to joining the Atlanta Fed, de Zeeuw was a research associate at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies' Center for State and Local Finance and Fiscal Research Center. There, he cowrote various fiscal notes and briefs on Georgia's state and local fiscal policies, and coauthored a report on Connecticut's comparative state and local fiscal standing. He holds a bachelor of arts in political science and a master of arts in American history from Leiden University in the Netherlands. After immigrating to the United States, de Zeeuw earned a master's degree in economics from Georgia State University.