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Richard Sandor is Chairman and CEO of Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), a private market that makes it profitable for companies to cut pollution and promote environmental conservation by trading credits for reduced carbon dioxide gas emissions. Sandor is also a research professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Recognized as the "father of financial futures" and described by Barron's as the "progenitor of banking," he was the recipient of the Milken Institute's 2003 Award for Financial Innovation and the subject of an in-depth report in Forbes magazine. He is a director on numerous boards, including Nasdaq Liffe Markets and the Intercontinental Exchange, an electronic marketplace for commodity and derivative products; and he is a member of the design committee of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. He previously served as second vice chairman of strategy for the Chicago Board of Trade; as a senior financial markets executive with Kidder Peabody, Banque Indosuez and Drexel Burham Lambert; and as vice president and chief economist at the Chicago Board of Trade.

Panels:
An Examination of Problems and Solutions to Climate Change: A Conversation With Steven Chu

Carbon as a New Asset Class: The Environment as a Business Issue and Profit Center

Save the Planet! Lessons from Emissions Markets for Confronting Climate Risk

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