2024 WLCW Dr. Pippa Malmgren

Mission College’s Women in Leadership celebration recognizes women, including women of color, who have had a profound impact on the world and/or in their fields.
Award recipients were selected because their leadership provides a positive influence in their communities and their commitment to making a difference in the world makes them an important example to others -- clearly demonstrating the importance of women in leadership positions.
Tech Entrepreneur, Dr. Pippa Malmgren, is an economist who makes sense of the world economy by writing books, by founding tech businesses, by advising policymakers around the world, and through public speaking and teaching. She lectures at Sandhurst and in the Duke Fuqua Global Executive MB.A. Program. She is a Senior Advisor to The Monaco Foundry, a European start-up incubator for impact-led founders.
She is a member of the Advisory Board at Streamline Media, the firm that built many of the most successful video, digital and VR games in modern history. 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 writes a column about the world economy on Substack and is currently pursuing the MIT New Space Economy Program: Technologies, Products, Services, and Business Models.
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 UB.S.. 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 a Senior Associate Fellow of RUSI, the world’s leading defense think tank. She has also been involved in the Planning Committee of the B.S.A Huxley Summit.
In 2014, she co-founded a robotics firm that made award-winning industrial drones.She has written several books and her most recent bestseller, The Infinite Leader, won the International Press Award for the Best Book on Leadership for 2021. She has a B.A. from Mount Vernon College and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from LSE. She completed the Harvard Program on National Security.