CME Group to Host Eighth Annual Global Financial Leadership Conference

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Oct 27, 2015, 11:00 ET

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 21^st 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, 43^rd President of the United States and founder of the George W. Bush Foundation; President Bill Clinton, 42^nd President of the United States and founder of The William J. Clinton Foundation; Hillary Rodham Clinton, 67^th 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 [email protected].

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