About Ira Kawaller

Prior to founding Kawaller & Co. and the Kawaller Fund, Mr. Kawaller was the Vice President-Director of the New York Office of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, where he was responsible for promoting financial futures and options to the professional financial community. Before the CME, he held positions at J. Aron & Company, AT&T, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

A prolific author, Mr. Kawaller has written articles that have appeared in Derivatives Quarterly, Derivatives: Tax/Regulation/Finance, The Financial Analysts Journal, The Journal of Derivatives, The Journal of Finance, The Journal of the International Association of Financial Engineers, and Risk Magazine.

He is currently a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board's Derivatives Implementation Group (DIG) and the Government Accounting Standards Board's Derivative Instrument Task force on Derivatives and Hedging. Much of his work in recent years has related to aspects of accounting for derivative instruments and hedging activities. In prior years he was a trustee of both the Futures Industry Institute and the Securities Industry Institute and a member of the board of directors of the International Association of Financial Engineers.

Mr. Kawaller has held adjunct professorships at Columbia University and Polytechnic University. He received a Ph.D. in Economics, from Purdue University.

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