Murali Kanakasabai

Murali Kanakasabai is a leader in the derivatives industry, having designed and launched exchange-traded products in several industries. Previously, his work focused on inventing, designing, and developing new financial markets for the environmental marketplace. He served as senior vice president at the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), where he focused on research and new product innovation and led its business development efforts in South Asia. At CCX, he was part of the core team that established environmental commodity markets in six countries across four continents. He's a frequent speaker on economics, environmental issues, and agriculture, as well as on India and South Asia. He earned a BS in agriculture from the Tamilnadu Agricultural University, an MS in extension education and rural sociology from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, and an MS in economics and PhD in agricultural economics from the University of Kentucky.