Sebastian Mallaby Keynote Speaker

  • Author of "The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption" (2022), shortlisted as the Financial Times Business Book of the Year
  • Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
  • Best-selling author of "The Man Who Knew: Life and Times of Alan Greenspan" (2016)

Sebastian Mallaby's Biography

Sebastian Mallaby is a highly acclaimed journalist, popular public speaker and best-selling author.

Sebastian is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and from 2007-14 was Director of the Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the same establishment. He has led a US delegation to Beijing to discuss the internationalisation of the Chinese currency, and has been instrumental in CFR’s work on subjects at the intersection of international relations and international finance.

Currently serving on the London School of Economics Commission on the Future of British Diplomacy, Sebastian is also a contributing editor for the Financial Times and has served previously as a columnist and editorial board member at the Washington Post. In addition to his monthly column for the Financial Times, his recent writing has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic Monthly.

Before joining the Post in 1999, Sebastian Mallaby spent thirteen years with the Economist, where he wrote about foreign policy and international finance. Between 1997 and 1999, Sebastian was the Economist’s Washington bureau chief and wrote the magazine’s weekly Lexington column on American politics and foreign policy. He is a two-time Pulitzer prize finalist: once for editorials on Darfur and once for a series on economic inequality.

His book, “More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite” (Penguin, 2010), was the recipient of the Loeb Prize, a finalist in the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs prize, and a New York Times best-seller. His previous books are “The World’s Banker” (Penguin, 2004) and “After Apartheid” (Crown, 1992).

Sebastian’s “The Man Who Knew: The Life And Times Of Alan Greenspan” (Bloomsbury 2016) was shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book Of The Year Award. Based on five years of research and unmatched access to Greenspan, the book presented a nuanced assessment of one of the most influential economic statesmen of the twentieth century and issued a warning about the future of finance. The story of Greenspan, according to Mallaby, is the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill.

His latest book, “The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption” (Penguin, 2022) has also been shortlisted for the Financial Times Book of the Year Award. With unprecedented access to the world’s most celebrated venture capitalists, Sebastian Mallaby recounts the history of tech incubation. We learn the full truth behind some of the most iconic triumphs and infamous disasters in Silicon Valley history.

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Videos of Sebastian Mallaby

Sebastian Mallaby on Venture Capital
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Books by Sebastian Mallaby

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption
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The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby

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