CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, will host the third annual Global Financial Leadership Conference (GFLC) Oct. 18-20, 2010, at the Ritz-Carlton Beach Resort in Naples, Fla. The GFLC is an exclusive event that brings together decision-makers from the world's leading financial institutions to discuss emerging geopolitical trends, debate critical economic issues and provide perspectives on future developments in the financial marketplace.
Keynote speakers for this year's conference include President Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States and founder of The William J. Clinton Foundation, and David Gergen, CNN senior political analyst. Other featured speakers include Paul Tudor Jones, Founder of Tudor Investment Corporation; Michael Lewis, best-selling author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball and The Big Short; Robert Rubin, former U.S. Treasury Secretary; and Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer prize-winning author and authority on international politics, economics and energy.
Topics to be discussed include:
- Potential effects of the 2010 mid-term election cycle
- Current and proposed regulatory policy impact
- The rising role of risk management
- Sovereign debt and sovereign risk
- Endowment investment strategies and opportunities
- The politics of energy
- The future of the global economy
Previous GFLC events have hosted opinion leaders and luminaries such as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Paul Volcker, energy activist T. Boone Pickens and CNN host Fareed Zakaria. To access previous GFLC video, photo and press highlights, as well as 2010 conference information, visit the conference website at http://www.gflc.com/.