CHICAGO, Oct. 31, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- CME
Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives
marketplace, today announced it will host the ninth annual Global
Financial Leadership Conference (GFLC) Nov.
14-16, at the Ritz-Carlton Beach Resort in Naples, Fla. 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 insights and analysis of geopolitical trends and the global
financial landscape.
Keynote speakers for this year's conference include:
- Tony Blair, Prime
Minister of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland (1997-2007)
- John Boehner, Speaker of
the United States House of
Representatives (2011-2015)
- Gordon Brown, Prime
Minister of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland (2007-2010)
- Gary Cohn, President and
Chief Operating Officer, Goldman Sachs
- Michael Phelps, 23-Time
Olympic Gold Medalist
- Lawrence Summers,
Director, White House National Economic Council (2009-2010);
Harvard University (2001-2006);
Secretary of the Treasury (1999-2001)
Additional featured speakers include:
- Erin Andrews,
Sportscaster and Reporter, Fox Sports
- David Axelrod, Senior
Advisor to President Barack Obama
(2009-2011)
- Kobe Bryant, Five-Time
NBA Champion
- Brian Forde, Director of
Digital Currency, The MIT Media Lab
- Karen Hughes, Political
Strategist; Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and
Public Affairs (2005-2007)
- Derek Jeter, Five-Time
World Series Champion
- Peyton Manning, Two-Time
Super Bowl Winning Quarterback
- Timothy Massad, Chairman,
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Raghuram Rajan, Governor
of the Reserve Bank of India
(2013-2016)
- James Staten, Chief
Strategist, Cloud & Enterprise Division, Microsoft
- Michael Strahan, NFL Hall
of Fame and Super Bowl Champion
- Gillian Tett, U.S.
Managing Editor, Financial Times
Topics of discussion will include insight and analysis of
geopolitical trends and the global financial landscape, investment
climate and outlook, what to expect in the first 100 days of the
new presidential administration, and the future of fintech.
The full agenda for the conference can be found at
http://www.gflc.com/agenda.html.
To follow GFLC coverage during and after the 2016 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.
Last year's event featured speakers including: Tom Brokaw, television journalist and author;
Dick Costolo, Chief Executive
Officer of Twitter; Mike Duke, Chief
Executive Officer of WalMart; Chuck
Hagel, U.S. Secretary of Defense; Timothy Massad, Chairman of the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission; Leon
Panetta, U.S. Secretary of Defense and Central Intelligence
Agency Director; Nouriel Roubini,
Chairman, Co-Founder, Roubini Global Economics; Terry Savage, Author and Media Commentator;
Bob Schieffer, Moderator, Face the
Nation, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News; 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.
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; and Paul
Volcker, former chairman of Federal Reserve.
Media wishing to attend GFLC should contact Michael Shore at 312.930.2363 or at
michael.shore@cmegroup.com.
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