Bill Clinton, George W. Bush to speak at business conference in North Naples
Dave Osborn
Two former presidents will visit North Naples in November.
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will be speakers at the annual CME Group Global Financial Leadership Conference at The Ritz-Carlton beach resort Nov. 12-14.
The gathering is expected to draw as many as 350 of the Chicago-based CME Group's top clients from around the world.
Other speakers will be H.R. McMaster, who was national security adviser under President Donald Trump until this spring; Janet Yellen, chairwoman of the Federal Reserve Board from 2014 to 2018; Gary Cohn, former chief economic adviser to Trump; David Cameron, Great Britain prime minister from 2010 to 2016; Kenneth Griffin, founder and CEO of global investment firm Citadel; J. Christopher Giancarlo, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and Blythe Masters, former executive at JPMorgan Chase and currently CEO of Digital Asset Holdings, a financial technology company based in New York.
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Cohn was in the news recently when he was featured in the prologue of "Fear," journalist Bob Woodward's new book on the Trump administration. Woodward wrote that Cohn stole documents off Trump's desk to prevent the president from pulling the United States out of major trade deals.
Terry Duffy, CME Group executive chairman and president, lives in Naples and began the conference more than a decade ago. The CME Group is the largest futures exchange in the world.
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Past speakers have included former Secretaries of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Condoleezza Rice; former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker; former British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown; and actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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