利奥·梅拉梅德,被全球公认为金融期货的创始人——他创立了第一个金融期货市场国际货币市场(IMM),推出了第一个金融期货品种外汇期货,开创了期货的新纪元。1999年末,梅拉梅德被《芝加哥论坛报》誉为20世纪商业领域中最重要的十位芝加哥人之一,被《芝加哥杂志》誉为20世纪最具影响力的百名芝加哥人之一。2003年,他被Pensions&Investment列入100年来给货币管理带来“最不同凡响的变化”的30人之一。梅拉梅德1932年出生于波兰一个犹太人家庭,为了躲避希特勒的迫害,他在父母的带领下几经周折,于1941年4月逃亡到美国,成为美国公民。读书期间, Leo Melamed, known globally as the founder of financial futures - founded the first International Monetary Market (IMM) in the financial futures market, introduced the first foreign exchange futures in financial futures and started the futures New era. In late 1999, Melamed was hailed by the Chicago Tribune as one of the top ten Chicagoans in the 20th century for business and Chicago Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential Chicagoans of the 20th century. In 2003, he was listed by Pensions & Investment as one of 30 people who brought “the most extraordinary change” to monetary management in the past 100 years. Melamed was born in 1932 in a Jewish family in Poland. In order to evade the persecution of Hitler, he took the tide under the leadership of his parents and in April 1941 fled to the United States and became a U.S. citizen. During reading,