Mark Shore

Dr. Mark Shore, Director and Economist, CME Group, is responsible for generating economic analysis on global financial markets by identifying emerging trends, evaluating economic factors, and forecasting their potential impact on CME Group’s various asset classes. He is a well-known alternative investment expert with over 30 years of experience in capital markets. He is also an adjunct professor at DePaul University.

Previous positions include full-time finance faculty and executive director of the Arditti Center for Risk Management at DePaul University, director of Coquest Institute at Coquest Advisors, head of risk at Octane Research ($1.1 billion AUM), and chief operating officer of VK Capital ($300 million AUM), a wholly owned Morgan Stanley commodity trading advisor (CTA) business unit. He conducts educational workshops, webinars, and is frequently invited to speak at industry and academic conferences. Mark has contributed research to several global organizations on volatility, macroeconomics, commodities, asset allocation, due diligence, and alternative
investments.

Mark contributed chapters to the following Wiley & Sons books: Hedge Funds: Insights in Performance Measurement, Risk Analysis, and Portfolio Allocation (2005) and The Handbook of Commodity Investing (2008). He also wrote the introduction to the Vault Career Guide to Hedge Funds (2023), now in its fifth edition. He is a member of the Editorial Board for the Commodity Insights Digest (CID) at Bayes Business School—City University of London, UK. 

Mark received his Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) from DePaul University with his dissertation topic related to alternative investments. He received his MBA from the University of Chicago.