Dennis Chookaszian

Biography

Dennis Chookaszian is the former chairman and CEO of CNA Insurance Companies and an independent director at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He has served on the boards of thirteen publicly traded corporations and well over eighty private corporations, and is currently a director of two public companies and twenty private corporations. Dennis is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School where he teaches Corporate Governance, and also teaches International Corporate Governance in China at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and at Jiao Tong University Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance. He is a trustee of Northwestern University.