Gordon Rausser is a recognized national expert on financial markets, a widely-published author and inventor, and a founder of start-up companies. He frequently speaks publicly on urgent economic and financial issues. Dr. Rausser is the Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor at U.C. Berkeley. Gordon is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Agricultural Economics Association. Over the course of his professional career, Dr. Rausser has been responsible for developing four new areas of research and has been one of the pioneers in nine other fundamental areas. As a result, he has received 16 national awards for original research discoveries. During the 1970's and 1980's, much of Dr. Rausser's research focused on exchange futures markets and CFTC regulations. He was engaged as an expert by a number of the organized futures exchanges on risk analytics, portfolio analysis, and futures markets as an asset class. He has also testified before the CFTC on the proposed introduction of new futures commodity contracts. He has published more than 200 articles, books, and book chapters and has written more than 100 Commissioned Papers, Governmental Reports, and Working Papers. While on leave from U.C. Berkeley, Dr. Rausser served as senior economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisors in the mid-1980's and subsequently as chief economist of the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1988 to 1990. Gordon has created over $500 million in shareholder value by founding two companies that have been taken public and three successful private companies. He is the co-author of two patents in financial technology pertaining to dynamic risk-based OTC transaction permissioning and on methodologies for selecting capital efficient asset portfolios.

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