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February 20, 2008

Chairman of Chicago Climate Exchange Richard L. Sandor to Deliver GW School of Business Robert P. Maxon Lecture

Sandor will Discuss Global Warming and the Use of Markets to Solve Environmental Problems

EVENT:

Richard L. Sandor, chairman and CEO of the Chicago Climate Exchange, will discuss “Global Warming and the Use of Markets to Solve Environmental Problems” in The George Washington University School of Business’ 2007-2008 Robert P. Maxon Lecture.

WHEN:

Thursday, April 3, 2008; 6 pm

WHERE:

The George Washington University,
Media and Public Affairs Building First Floor
Jack Morton Auditorium
805 21st St., NW, Washington, D.C.
Foggy Bottom-GWU Metro (Orange and Blue lines)

COST:

This event is free and open to the public. Members of the media may RSVP to Adela de la Torre at (202) 994-6424 or adelita@gwu.edu.

BACKGROUND:

Richard L. Sandor is chairman and CEO of the Chicago Climate Exchange, the world’s first and North America’s only voluntary, legally binding integrated greenhouse gas emissions reduction, registry, and trading system. Sandor also is a research professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. In October 2007, he was honored as one of Time magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment” for his work as the “Father of Carbon of Trading.” While on sabbatical from the University of California, Berkeley, in the early 1970s he served as vice president and chief economist of the Chicago Board of Trade. He was honored by the City of Chicago and the Chicago Board of Trade for his contribution to the creation of financial futures and his universal recognition as the “father of financial futures.”

The Robert P. Maxon Lectureship was established through Dorothy Maxon’s generous endowment gift to the School of Business in honor of her husband, Robert P. Maxon, B.A. ’48. A distinguished GW alumnus, Robert P. Maxon valiantly served his country in WWII and went on to serve in several executive positions for Mobil, retiring as general manager of worldwide corporate public relations. The annual lecture features prominent executives and academics making presentations on contemporary global management issues. The lectureship are designed to add depth to the understanding of the next generation of global business leaders.

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