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Dr. Pippa Malmgren

American Policy Analyst, Former US Presidential Advisor. Top 100 Women in Technology. Best Selling, Award-winning Author.

ABOUT

Dr. Pippa Malmgren is a globally fluent economist, award-winning leadership strategist and recognized expert in sensemaking in today’s fast-changing and complex global political-economy. She translates signals into foresight and fear of the future into a desire to engage with it enthusiastically. Where most want to preserve stability she helps us embrace evolution, adaptation and innovation – with a rare ability to speak both to elites in power and to broad public audiences. She serves as a strategic bridge between sectors, combining deep policy insight with venture innovation and storytelling that resonates even with the most sophisticated and well-informed audiences who think they already know everything.

As an advisor to Presidents, Prime Ministers, institutional investors and military leaders, she is a “signal interpreter” and digital diviner for world-shapers — someone political and business leaders consult when the maps no longer match the terrain. She’s one of the few geopolitical thinkers who makes audiences feel hopeful, not just informed. She says, “Chaos often gives us a chance to upgrade, not collapse.” She doesn’t deny risks, but she teaches leaders and investors to find meaning, solutions, and momentum in disruption. She doesn’t lecture — she invites people to think differently. She writes a highly-ranked and popular column on Substack, too.

Unlike her peers who focus solely on quantitative metrics and numerical and technical forecasts, Malmgren operates as a narrative-driven story-teller – a qualitative cross-domain thought leader. She serves as a strategic bridge between sectors, combining deep policy insight with venture innovation and the kind of storytelling that resonates even with the most sophisticated and well-informed audiences who think they already know everything.

Pippa delivers cross-sector summits combining macro- and micro-technical insights with strategic foresight and storytelling that connects geopolitics, technology, markets, and people. Her interdisciplinary approach provides one coherent narrative lens that resonates across sectoral boundaries.

She tailors each session to meet the needs of each audience, weaving in insights that are specific to their sectors whether in finance, asset management, payments systems, Bitcoin/Stablecoins, technology, food production, energy, space economy, sub-space/ nano-economy, transportation, defense sector, medical/pharma, creative industries and more.

VIDEOS

CORE TOPICS

01

Horizon Scanning the World Economy

A positive, hopeful view about a future that’s already arrived (Widening the aperture of our view/Focusing on the Upside Opportunities, not just Downside Risks.

02

New Money Order

Bitcoin, Stablecoin, Debt, Interest Rates, Managing decentralization in an Entrepreneur’s Era,

03

AI and Geopolitics

AI is Driving Geopolitics, Life, Work and Jobs after War.

04

Situational Leadership

Not just leadership skills but Situational Leadership – in the context of fast-moving technological and geopolitical change (based on two award-winning books on leadership, The Leadership Lab (Business Book of the Year)  and The Infinite Leader (International Press Award Winner).

DIFFERENTIATOR

She combines national security, macroeconomics, tech innovation, and human emotional intelligence into one coherent lens. Unusually, she has deep practical experience having worked for Presidents and Prime Ministers but also from launching and advising award-winning tech startups in robotics, AI (with C10 Labs at MIT) and working with established venture builder studios in the US and Europe as well as military training think tanks including RUSI, Sandhurst, Royal College of Defense Studies.

Malmgren is forward-looking, solutions-orientedand inclined to see emergent opportunity even amidst turmoil. She is unusual among economists for her fundamentally optimistic worldview, especially in contrast to the generally cautious or pessimistic tone that dominates traditional economic discourse. This distinguishes her from doomsday-oriented forecasters and “collapse economists.”

Rather than blind positivity, her optimism comes from:

  • Technology: She believes new scientific, technological and philosophical innovations are unlocking new avenues for growth.
  • Human behavior: She observes that people are more resilient, creative, adaptive and valuable than we often acknowledge.
  • Cultural resilience: Her “signals” framework frequently picks up on hopeful, inventive trends before they show up in statistics.
  • She challenging geopolitical and economic events not just as shocks, but as opportunities for systemic renewal. Her writings suggest that chaos can be catalytic, signals of a system trying to rebalance itself – a message rarely heard from mainstream economists.

Proprietary concepts: She regularly distills big forces into sticky, memorable language to shape public discourse and help audiences understand reality more easily such as: shrinkflation (Retail Word of the Year 2022), heartwareshardwaretechplexitycashtrationcomopoeisis, and the Hot War in Cold Places.

PRAISE

Tone

Dr. Malmgren’s tone is warm, insightful, metaphor-rich and empowering — she weaves together global intelligence with human clarity. Audiences find her voice inspiring, authentic, and intellectually nourishing. She is known for helping audiences understand the future rather than dissecting the past or assigning blame. Her insights are forward-focused, equipping listeners with tools to anticipate and act, not just analyze.

Core Brand Values

  • Integrity over ideology.
  • Curiosity over control.
  • Imagination over inertia.
  • Infinite possibility over binary thinking.
  • Humanity at the heart of power

She doesn’t align with a specific political party or economic dogma. Her strength lies in independent, systems-level thinking grounded in history, ethics, and observation — offering a refreshing and helpful alternative to polarized commentary.

Summary: What Makes Dr. Pippa Malmgren Unique

Attribute Conventional Economist Pippa Malmgren
Outlook
Risk-averse, defensive
Opportunity-seeking, adaptive
Method
Data-heavy, backward-looking
Signal-driven, forward-seeing
Tone
Pessimistic, cautious
Optimistic, constructive
Tools
Models, regressions
Observation, narrative, pattern recognition
Strategy
Preserve stability
Embrace evolution

Brand Archetypes

Dr. Malmgren’s persona blends several classical brand archetypes:

    • The Sage: Interprets complexity and offers clarity.
    • The Explorer: Investigates patterns and breaks conventional boundaries.
    • The Creator: Crafts new language and ways of seeing the world.
    • The Caregiver: Emphasizes values like dignity, integrity, wisdom, and human purpose.