Former US Presidential Advisor |Former Advisor to the UK Cabinet
Best-Selling, Award-Winning Author |Tech Entrepreneur

Dr Pippa Malmgren is an economist who makes the world economy come alive with hope and possibility as she explains the nexus between markets, technology, politics, strategic security and geopolitics. She helps audiences better understand tomorrow’s economy today. She predicted the return of inflation, the rise of geopolitics, the slowdown in China, Brexit, and the fast expansion of the space economy. She is keen on high-tech and heart-led leadership and writes about emerging global trends on Dr. Pippa’s Pen and Podcast.

She lectures at Sandhurst and in the Duke Fuqua Global Executive MBA Program.

Pippa makes regular guest appearances on Bloomberg and the BBC and speaks to audiences worldwide on emerging trends.

She has been named a Fellow of The Bertelsmann Stiftung Foundation for 2022-2024. She is also a Founder member of the Lunar University, a NASA-originated project to ensure the first human institution on the moon represents the arts and humanities.

She served President George W. Bush in the White House as Special Assistant to the President and on The National Economic Council. She served on the President’s Working Group on Corporate Governance and The President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. After 9/11 she was also responsible for assessing Terrorism Risks to the Economy and technology as a source of geopolitical competitiveness.

Before joining the White House, she ran the Bankers Trust Asset Management business in Asia and was then appointed as the Global Chief Currency Strategist. She was then named the Deputy Head of Global Strategy at UBS. More recently she advised the British Cabinet on trade issues as a Board Member for The Department for International Trade from 2017-2019. She is also on the Board of Premios Verdes which holds the “Green Oscars” to support cleantech start-ups in emerging markets and serves as a judge on The Queen’s Enterprise Business Awards and is a Senior Associate Fellow of RUSI, the world’s leading defence think tank. She has also been involved in the Planning Committee of the BSA Huxley Summit. In 2014, she co-founded a robotics firm that made industrial drones which won the Cog X Award for Autonomy, the 2020 National Technology Award and Power Product of the Year 2020.

Her most recent bestseller, The Infinite Leader, won the International Press Award for the Best Book on Leadership for 2021. Her previous book, The Leadership Lab, was named Business Book of the Year and Best Book on Leadership in 2019 and won the International Press Award 2020 and the NYC Library Big Apple Award. She is also the author of: Geopolitics for Investors (2015) and Signals: How Everyday Signs Help Us Navigate the World’s Turbulent Economy a crowd-funded Amazon best-seller (2016/7). She has been named one of the Fifty Top Inspiring Women in the UK and one of the Top 100 in Tech by @WATC_WeAreTech and longlisted by Computer Weekly as a Most Influential Women in Tech for 2019, 2020 and 2021. She began her career at the OECD in Paris in the Science and Technology Directorate (STI).

She has a BA from Mount Vernon College and an M.Sc. and PhD from LSE. She completed the Harvard Program on National Security. She gave the graduation address at the London School of Economics in 2013 and 2016. Commercial firms like Google, American Express, major banks and asset managers like Citigroup and State Street and military leaders retain her to speak.

PRIMARY SPEAKING TOPICS:
Pippa takes a “holistic” approach and weaves together politics, policy, geopolitics, tech and markets.
The Hot War in Cold Places and The Cold War in Hot Places
Why The New Space Economy Will Transform Earth
Tech, Innovation, Geopolitics, and the Social Contract
The New Globalization is Glocalization
Conscious Capitalism
Digital Divining, AR/VR/XR and the Metverse

TESTIMONIALS
Rolls Royce FCAS 2023 “I found the presentation one of the biggest ‘aha’ moments I’ve had in the last 3 years.”
Citigroup Private Clients 2023 “superb and really elevated the mood, she was very captivating to listen to, and we’ve had lots of great feedback.”
Airbus 2023 “The feedback we have received is unanimous regarding how inspiring your talk was.”
Barclays Internal Leadership Training Series 2023 “for two phenomenal sessions for our high-potential Directors at Barclays. Your stories, as always, were engaging, thought provoking and inspiring.”
IQEQ 2023 on Conscious Capitalism “Fabulous keynote speech.”
WhiteSpace “She is consistently outstanding for us.”
EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards “Top rated speaker”
The Economist: “Inundated with enthusiastic feedback.”
Barron’s: “Spontaneous applause and a standing ovation.”