William Eckhardt

William Eckhardt is the Founder, Chairman & CEO of Eckhardt Trading Company, a systematic futures trading firm based in Chicago, IL. Mr. Eckhardt directs the firm's systems development and ongoing research.

He received a B.A. in Mathematics from DePaul University in 1969 and a M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1970. In 1974, after four years of doctoral research in Mathematical Logic at the University of Chicago, Eckhardt began trading for his own account at the Mid America Commodity Exchange.

Mr. Eckhardt’s philosophical writing covers a wide range of topics: the illusory nature of time's passage; the nature and status of physical properties; causality; the mind-body problem; decision theory; and paradoxes in probability theory.

Eckhardt serves on the International Advisory Board of the Pacific Institute of Theoretical Physics; and is a member of the University of Chicago Visiting Committee to the Division of Physical Sciences. He provided the leadership gift to establish the William Eckhardt Research Center at the University of Chicago, and finances the William Eckhardt Scholars Fund.