Dr. Pippa Malmgren
@DrPippaM
World-Renowned Keynote Speaker on Geopolitics, Bestselling Author, and Prize-Winner.
Connecting the Dots In a Changing World
The World Isn’t Random.
It’s Connected.
Headlines can feel chaotic — disconnected events happening across the globe. But step back, and patterns emerge.
What looks like noise is often strategy in motion.
Dr. Malmgren helps leaders see the full picture by connecting signals across geographies, industries, and systems. No single event tells the story. The insight comes from how they connect.
Clarity in Complexity
Dr. Malmgren brings a rare combination of insider experience and independent perspective. She has advised governments, global institutions, and business leaders at the highest levels — while maintaining the freedom to speak clearly and candidly.
Her work sits at the intersection of:
Geopolitics & global markets
Economic strategy & policy
Emerging technologies, including the space economy
Energy, security, and global power shifts
She makes complex ideas understandable, relevant, and actionable.
Global Perspective.
Human Impact.
From the North Korean border to global economic forums, Dr. Malmgren gathers insight at the source — translating local realities into global understanding.
Her perspective balances:
Depth and accessibility
Insider knowledge and independent thinking
Global systems and real-world impact
Because behind every macro trend are individual lives, decisions, and consequences.
A Compass for What’s Ahead
In a world of constant change, direction matters more than ever.
Dr. Malmgren serves as a guide — helping organizations and leaders navigate uncertainty with a clearer sense of where things are going, and why.
Her approach is not about predicting headlines. It’s about understanding the forces shaping them.
Seeing the Whole System
Progress isn’t linear. It moves in cycles, patterns, and interconnected systems.
Dr. Malmgren’s work reflects a holistic view — where economics, politics, technology, and culture are not separate conversations, but parts of a larger whole.
Understanding comes from seeing the system, not just the pieces.
Economist. Advisor.
Decoder of Global Systems.
Helps leaders understand the intersection of geopolitics, technology, and markets.
Dr. Pippa Malmgren
Dr. Malmgren is an economist who makes sense of the world economy and geopolitics by writing books, founding technology businesses, advising policymakers around the world, and through public speaking and teaching.
Her specialty is understanding the nexus between geopolitics, technology innovation, strategic security, and markets. She serves as a Strategic Advisor to C10 Labs, an AI venture studio based at the MIT Media Lab, and is a Fellow of the Bertelsmann Stiftung Foundation.
She is also on advisory boards across multiple sectors including media, technology, and global innovation initiatives, and works with organizations navigating complex global and economic shifts.
CURRENT ROLES
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Strategic Advisor to C10 Labs, an AI venture studio based at the MIT Media Lab.
Advisor to startups across artificial intelligence, space, nuclear fusion, lunar logistics, and subsea internet infrastructure. -
Fellow of the Bertelsmann Stiftung Foundation (2022–2024).
Board Member of Premios Verdes, supporting cleantech startups in emerging markets.
Advisory Board Member at Streamline Media. -
Founder Member of LUNARC, a project focused on establishing a human institution on the moon representing the arts and humanities.
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Member of the judging panel for The King’s Awards for Enterprise.
Experience
Served President George W. Bush in the White House as Special Assistant to the President and on the National Economic Council.
Served on the President’s Working Group on Corporate Governance and the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, including work assessing terrorism risks to the economy after 9/11.
Previously ran Bankers Trust Asset Management business in Asia and served as Global Chief Currency Strategist.
Later named Deputy Head of Global Strategy at UBS.
Advised the British Cabinet on trade issues as a Board Member for the Department for International Trade (2017–2019).
Senior Associate Fellow of RUSI, a leading defense think tank.
Books & Ideas
A collection of books exploring leadership, geopolitics, markets, technology, and the systems shaping a changing world.
Leadership
The Infinite Leader
Leadership in a world where the map no longer matches the terrain.
Following the award-winning Leadership Lab, The Infinite Leader explores how modern leaders navigate uncertainty, technological disruption, complexity, and rapid systemic change.
The book examines adaptability, awareness, resilience, and long-term thinking in an increasingly unpredictable world.
“The Infinite Leader is a must read for anyone in a leadership role.”
— Robert J. Herbold, Former COO, Microsoft
Leadership
The Leadership Lab
A rethinking of leadership for a changing world.
Blending economics, psychology, innovation, and real-world experience, The Leadership Lab explores why traditional leadership models are breaking down — and what comes next.
Named Business Book of the Year and winner of the International Press Award for Leadership.
“Leadership isn’t about the leader anymore. It’s about the ship.”
World Economy
Signals
Seeing the patterns others miss.
Signals explores how politics, markets, technology, and culture quietly reveal the larger systemic shifts already reshaping the global economy.
Rather than reacting to headlines, the book encourages readers to understand the interconnected forces driving them.
“Better than Piketty.”
— James Galbraith
“A Tour de Force.”
— Lord Rose
“Rather marvellous.”
— Financial Times
Geopolitics
Geopolitics for Investors
Understanding global power through markets.
An exploration of how political shifts, economic systems, and geopolitical tensions increasingly shape markets, investment environments, and global strategy.
“A succinct, nuanced, and thoughtful exposition of geopolitics.”
— CFA
Beyond the Headlines
Dr. Malmgren shares her most in-depth thinking on Substack, connecting global events, emerging trends, and the forces shaping the future.
Thinking Expeditions
A new way to explore global ideas.
Dr. Pippa Malmgren brings together leaders, policymakers, and innovators for invitation-only experiences designed around meaningful conversations and shared perspectives. These gatherings combine big-picture discussions with immersive experiences that create space to think differently, build relationships, and explore new ideas.
Upcoming expeditions include Iceland, where participants connect with Arctic leaders and take part in curated experiences including snorkeling at Silfra and visiting the Sky Lagoon.
Speaking & Advisory
Helping leaders navigate geopolitical change, emerging technology, markets, and the systems shaping the future.
Hot Topics
In the Situation Room
Leadership skills for a fast-changing world where tech and geopolitics disrupt and the map no longer matches the terrain. She shows world-shapers how to find meaning, solutions and momentum in disruption.
The New Money Order
Tech innovations are changing the nature of money and will touch every business. In a world where governments are adopting bitcoin, crypto and stablecoins, we’ll see a widening of the pathways for financial capital to fund a wider range of businesses and entrepreneurs, less inflation and a re-dollarized world economy.
How Can AI Find its Soul? Can Humanity?
What if AI, automation and robotics create better ways of working, bringing higher incomes, lower costs and more time to be human? AI is augmenting humans, not replacing them. As AI does the grunt work, human creativity is enhanced, costs fall, and abundance displaces scarcity.
The big question is what will humans do with all the efficiency gains? Work will replace jobs, inner work will replace external work. How will we define purpose, status, meaning? Better, is the answer.
Horizon-scanning the world economy
Leadership skills for a fast-changing world where tech and geopolitics disrupt and the map no longer matches the terrain. She shows world-shapers how to find meaning, solutions and momentum in disruption.
AI, Geopolitics and Innovation
AI will create jobs, work and historic advancements, freeing people and nations to be more creative and collaborative and less in conflict. Preparing for the AI Peace Dividend.
With China and the US ahead of the rest of the field, AI is changing world security. What will the AI race mean for the rest of us? Most think AI will kill us. Dr. Pippa says it will empower and enliven us.
The New Space Race and Four Frontiers of the Economy:
The superpowers are racing towards innovation across the new frontiers of the world economy:
Space:
Sub atomic-space, nano space, Quantum space
Virtual reality/Augmented reality, digital space including digital money Bitcoin/crypto/tokenization of everything
Inner space: Medicine, longevity, spiritual elevation
Why? For access to unlimited energy, unlimited resources, unlimited internet connectivity, and solutions to problems. We must imagine a world with an abundance of critical resources, energy, housing, food, materials and more, because its coming. Greater technological powers require that we upgrade hardware, software and also human heartware.