Pippa Malmgren

Biography

Dr Pippa Malmgren is an economist, writer, advisor, investor and strategic thinker who specialises in understanding the interaction of geopolitics, technology and AI, leadership, innovation, strategic security and financial markets. She makes sense of complex global dynamics, advising policymakers and businesses around the world.

With advisory and business interests across AI, space, finance and media, Pippa explores how geopolitical shifts, technological disruption and market dynamics are reshaping the global landscape. She addresses strategic decision-making in an landscape of rapid innovation, security and economic change, using her experience advising governments, financial institutions and technology companies. She examines how leaders can navigate complexity by understanding the relationship between geopolitics and markets, and how emerging technologies and strategic security concerns influence economic outcomes and business decisions.

Pippa served in the White House as Special Assistant to President George W. Bush on the National Economic Council, where she served on the President's Working Group on Corporate Governance and the President's Working Group on Financial Markets. Following 9/11, she assessed terrorism risks to the economy and Pentagon procurement from technology startups. Before the White House, she ran Bankers Trust Asset Management in Asia, and served as Global Chief Currency Strategist, larer as Deputy Head of Global Strategy at UBS. She has also advised the British Cabinet on trade issues as a Board Member for the Department for International Trade.

A Strategic Advisor to C10 Labs, the MIT Media Lab-based AI studio and venture fund, Pippa is also a member of the Advisory Board at Streamline Media, a creative technology company specialising in the games industry. She co-founded a robotics firm developing industrial drones that won the Cog X Award for Autonomy, the 2020 National Technology Award and Power Product of the Year. She serves on the Board of Premios Verdes, the annual "Green Oscars" recognising pioneering cleantech startups, and on the judging panel for The King's Awards for Enterprise. Pippa is a founder member of LUNARC, a project ensuring the first human institution on the moon represents the arts and humanities, and is a Senior Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). She is an occasional lecturer at Duke Fuqua's Global Executive MBA Program, Sandhurst Military Academy, and the Royal College of Defence Studies.

Pippa is the co-author of the award-wining The Infinite Leader, which explores how leaders can restore humanity and deliver sustainable leadership in a world of infinite possibilities. Its follow-up, The Leadership Lab, looked further into leading in uncertain times and also won a number of business book awards. Pippa also wrote Geopolitics for Investors, and Signals: How Everyday Signs Help Us Navigate the World's Turbulent Economy, and she writes a regular Substack column on the world economy and geopolitics.