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About Jeff Rubin - Speaker on Oil and Economic Markets; Author of Why Your World is About To Get a Whole Lot Smaller

Keynote speaker Jeff Rubin is an award winning international author and economist. After almost twenty years as Chief Economist and Managing Director of CIBC World Markets, Jeff Rubin resigned at the end of March 2009 to publish his international bestseller, Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization. Simultaneously published by Random House in the US and Canada and by Virgin Books in the United Kingdom, his path-breaking book has now been published in over 15 countries and in seven different languages.

NEWSWEEK wrote, Rubin’s argument is powerful, while the Financial Times of London called the book One of the year’s best. Last year the number-one non-fiction bestseller in Canada, the book recently won the country’s National Business Book Award, and was also a runner-up for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award.

Over the course of his career in financial markets, Mr. Rubin’s calls on interest rates and foreign exchange markets won him a number-one ranking in economics in the Brendan Wood International survey of institutional investors in Canada on no less than ten separate occasions.

What Jeff Rubin Talks About:

Internationally, Mr. Rubin is best known for his prescient calls on oil prices. Mr. Rubin was one of the first economists in the world to accurately predict the rise of oil prices over the last decade to recent triple-digit levels. Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller explores some of the broader implications of those prices, and how they will reverse globalization and lead to the re-emergence of more local or regional-based economies.

Mr. Rubin’s insights into global energy markets have made the front page of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and have been cited in the Economist, Newsweek and USA Today. He has made numerous appearances on ABC, CBS, CNN and CNBC.

On the podium, Mr. Rubin is a provocative speaker who brings unparalleled insight and candor to his presentations. Read Mr. Rubin’s insights in his widely followed blog, Jeff Rubin’s Smaller World, carried by the Huffington Post in the United States and the Globe and Mail website in Canada.