CHICAGO, Oct. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today
announced it will host the eighth annual Global Financial
Leadership Conference (GFLC) Nov.16-18, 2015, at the Ritz-Carlton
Beach Resort in Naples, Florida.
The GFLC is an exclusive, invitation-only event that brings
together decision-makers from the world's leading financial
institutions to discuss the global investment climate and outlook,
debate critical economic issues and share insight and analysis of
geopolitical trends and the global financial landscape.
Speakers for this year's conference include:
- Josh Barrickman,
Principal/Portfolio Manager, Vanguard Fixed Income Group
- Tom Brokaw, Television
Journalist and Author
- Dick Costolo, Chief Executive
Officer, Twitter (2010–2015); Renowned Tech Innovator
- Mike Duke, Chief Executive
Officer, WalMart (2009–2014)
- Dan Glickman, Vice President,
The Aspen Institute, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (1995-2001)
- Chuck Hagel, U.S. Secretary of
Defense (2013–2015); U.S. Senator (1997–2009)
- Philipp Hildebrand, Vice
Chairman, Blackrock; Chairman, Swiss National Bank (2010-12)
- Elizabeth Holmes, Founder &
CEO, Theranos
- Kevin Kajiwara, Geopolitical
Expert; Managing Director, Teneo Intelligence
- Timothy Massad, Chairman,
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Alan Mulally, Chief Executive
Officer, Ford Motor Company (2006-2014); Member, Board of
Directors, Google
- Blake Mycoskie, Founder,
TOMS
- Leon Panetta, U.S. Secretary of
Defense (2011–2013); Director, Central Intelligence Agency
(2009–2011)
- Nouriel Roubini, Chairman,
Co-Founder, Roubini Global Economics
- Terry Savage, Author and Media
Commentator
- Bob Schieffer, Moderator, Face
the Nation (1991–2015); Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News
(1982-2015)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor
Downey Professor of State and Global Policy at USC and Former Governor, State of California
- Gary White, Chief Executive
Officer and Co-Founder, Water.org
Topics for discussion include global economic and security
challenges of the 21st century, vision for the global
food system, long-term solutions to the water crisis, the changing
face of media, weathering global economic and geopolitical storms,
and a global regulatory outlook.
The full agenda for the conference can be found at:
http://www.gflc.com/agenda.html.
To follow GFLC coverage during and after the 2015 conference,
visit CME Group's online blog, OpenMarkets, at
www.openmarkets.com. To access additional information about the
conference as well as previous GFLC video, photo and press
highlights, visit the conference website at www.gflc.com.
Previous GFLC events have hosted opinion leaders and luminaries
such as President George W. Bush, 43rd President of
the United States and founder of
the George W. Bush Foundation; President Bill Clinton, 42nd President of
the United States and founder of
The William J. Clinton Foundation; Hillary
Rodham Clinton, 67th Secretary of State of the United States; Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group;
Katie Couric, award-winning
journalist and author; Gary Becker,
Nobel Prize-Winning economist; Ben
Bernanke, Former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System; Tony Blair,
Former Prime Minister of Great
Britain; and Paul Volcker,
former chairman of Federal Reserve.
Other featured speakers have included Lord Mervyn King, Former Governor of The Bank of
England; Gen. Colin Powell, Retired U.S. Secretary of State;
Karl Rove, political analyst and
contributor for FOX News, Newsweek and The Wall Street
Journal and former senior advisor and deputy Chief of Staff
during the George W. Bush administration; Gary Gensler, former Chairman of the U.S.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Sal
Kahn, founder of Kahn Academy; The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of the U.K.;
Niall Ferguson, economic historian,
professor and author; Cheng Siwei, Chairman, International Finance
Forum of Beijing; Paul Tudor Jones, founder of Tudor Investment
Corporation; Aneesh Chopra, former
Chief Technology Officer of the U.S.; Robert Rubin, former U.S. Treasury Secretary;
and Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer
prize-winning author and authority on international politics,
economics and energy.
Media wishing to attend GFLC should contact Michael Shore at 312.930.2363 or at
michael.shore@cmegroup.com.
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace,
CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage
risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global
benchmark products across all major asset classes, including
futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes,
foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather
and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together
through its CME Globex® electronic trading platform, its trading
facilities in New York and
Chicago, and through its
London-based CME Europe
derivatives exchange. CME Group also operates one of the
world's leading central counterparty clearing providers through CME
Clearing and CME Clearing Europe, which offer clearing and
settlement services across asset classes for exchange-traded
contracts and over-the-counter derivatives transactions.
These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can
substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk.
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