Bush policy and markets advisor to speak on economy Oct. 20 at Jepson School
The U.S. and world economies are emerging from and coping with the startling events of 2008. What is really happening and what's next? Philippa Malmgren, a expert on the interaction between policy and financial markets, who served President Bush as a special assistant on economic policy on the National Economic Council, offers reflections, predictions and warnings on what went wrong and what might happen next, whether it be fallout from increased Wall Street regulation, inflation or other changes.
She will speak at the Jepson School Tuesday, Oct. 20, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., Jepson Hall 120, on A View from the Markets: How Politics, Policy and Geopolitics are Changing the Global Economy. If you will attend, please register: http://jepson.richmond.edu/rsvp/Oct20.html
Named a Global Leader for Tomorrow some 10 years ago at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Malmgren is President of the London-based Canonbury Group and co-founder of Principalis Asset Management. She is also a senior advisor to Deutsche Bank and other financial institutions, a lecturer, and the founder of a quarterly publication called Policy & Markets. Malmgren started her career in international finance with the Trade Policy Research Centre in London and the OECD in Paris. She subsequently began a successful career in banking including heading the Global Asset Management business for Bankers Trust in Asia, out of Hong Kong, Chief Currency Strategist for Bankers Trust Company, and finally Deputy-Head of Global Investment Strategy at UBS Warburg in London, England. She is now on the Advisory Boards of the Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs, the University of London School for Oriental and African Studies as well as two banks in the Middle East and Europe.
Malmgren served as an advisor on international economic issues to George W. Bush during his presidential campaign. She joined the Bush White House, where she served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy on the National Economic Council and was a member of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets and the President's Working Group on Corporate Governance. While in the White House, she was responsible for all financial market issues for the President, which included corporate governance, bank regulation, Government Sponsored Enterprises, mortgages, deposit insurance, terrorism insurance issues, anti-money laundering, and international finance issues. She was a liaison between the White House and all the financial regulators including the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). She was assigned to the White House Office of the Homeland Defense Working Group on Terrorism Risks to the Economy.
She has a B.A. from Mount Vernon College and an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Royal Institute for International Affairs, the Institute for International Strategic Security. She has lectured for the MIT Sloan Fellows. Duke University's Global MBA Program, INSEAD, Oxford, LSE and West Point. She is a regular guest presenter on CNBC's Squawk Box in Europe and Asia and various BBC television and radio programs and a regular speaker at investor and business conferences including Fortune's Most Powerful Women in Business. As part of her visit to Richmond, she will address the Spider Management Company board at its annual meeting.
Posted October 7, 2009