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Acting Chairman Walter Lukken
Walter Lukken was appointed Acting Chairman by the Commission on June 27, 2007. He was first appointed Commissioner in 2002 and is now serving his second term due to expire in 2010. President Bush nominated him in September 2007 to serve as Chairman of the CFTC. Acting Chairman Lukken has testified several times before Congress and represents the agency as part of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. He works frequently with other domestic and foreign financial regulators.
Acting Chairman Lukken served as chairman of the CFTC’s Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC) through January 2008. The GMAC was created by the Commission to provide an industry forum in which it can discuss the many complex and novel issues raised by the ever-increasing globalization of futures markets. In this role, he frequently represented the Commission before international organizations and forums, including the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR). He spoke before the U.S.-China Joint Economic Committee hosted by the U.S. Department of Treasury on the developing role of derivatives markets in China.
Prior to joining the CFTC, Acting Chairman Lukken served for five years as counsel on the professional staff of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee under Chairman Richard Lugar (R-IN), specializing in futures and derivatives markets. In this capacity, he was prominently involved in the development, drafting and passage of the CFMA (H.R. 5660).
A native of Richmond, Indiana, he received his B.S. degree with honors from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, and his Juris Doctor degree from Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. Acting Chairman Lukken is a member of the Illinois Bar.