Blu Putnam is the Chief Economist and Managing Director at CME Group, the largest operator of futures and options exchanges around the world. He is responsible for leading economic analysis on global financial, commodity, and agricultural markets.

Blu’s career has ranged from central banking to investment research to portfolio management.

Blu earned his Ph.D. in economics from Tulane University in New Orleans. He has six books on international finance and portfolio management to his credit as well as many academic articles, in such journals as The American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, American Statistical Association, and the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, among others. Blu has been a visiting or adjunct professor at The Wharton School, Stern School of Business at New York University, the Business School at Columbia University, and St. Mary’s College of Maryland.