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David Malpass
13th President of the World Bank Group
In office
April 9, 2019 – June 1, 2023
Chief ExecutiveKristalina Georgieva
Anshula Kant
Preceded byKristalina Georgieva (acting)
Succeeded byAjay Banga
Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
In office
September 25, 2017 – April 9, 2019
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byD. Nathan Sheets
Succeeded byBrent McIntosh
Personal details
Born (1956-03-08) March 8, 1956 (age 68)
Petoskey, Michigan, U.S
Political partyRepublican
SpouseAdele Obermayer
Children4
RelativesHerman Obermayer (father-in-law)
EducationColorado College (BA)
University of Denver (MBA)

David Robert Malpass (born March 8, 1956[1]) is an American economic analyst and former government official who served as President of the World Bank Group from 2019 to 2023. Malpass previously served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs under Donald Trump, Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary under Ronald Reagan, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under George H. W. Bush. He served as Chief Economist at Bear Stearns for the six years preceding its collapse.[2]

During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Malpass served as an economic advisor to Trump, and in 2017, he was nominated and confirmed as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs at the Treasury Department. Malpass was elected President of the World Bank on April 4, 2019, having been nominated to the position in February 2019 by the Trump administration.[3][4] He formally took office on April 9, 2019,[4] and announced in February 2023 that he was leaving the position in June of that year.

Early life and education

Malpass was born in 1956 in Petoskey, Michigan.[1]

He earned a BA in physics at Colorado College in 1976,[1] and an MBA at the University of Denver in 1978.[1][5] In 1983 he was a mid-career fellow studying international economics at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.[1][6]

Career

Early career

From 1976 to 1981, Malpass worked in Portland, Oregon as a contract administrator for Esco Corporation, a computer systems consultant and CPA for and Arthur Andersen, and controller/CFO for Consolidated Supply.[1]

Economist

From 1984 through 1993, in the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations, Malpass worked on an array of economic, budget, and foreign policy issues including the 1986 tax cut, NAFTA, and the Brady Plan for Latin American debt.[5] From 1984 to 1986 he was Senior Analyst for Taxes and Trade and International Economist of the Senate Budget Committee.[1] At the U.S. Treasury Department, he was Legislative Manager from 1986 to 1988, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Developing Nations 1988 to 1989.[1] He was Republican staff director of the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee from 1989 to 1990.[1] At the U.S. State Department, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Latin America Economic Affairs from 1990 to 1993.[1]

Malpass was chief international economist at Bear Stearns from 1993 to 2002.[1] From 2002 to 2008, he was chief economist at the firm.[1]

In 2008, Malpass founded his own economics firm, Encima Global.[7] In 2010, he ran for the Republican nomination for United States Senate in that year's special election in New York;[8] he placed second in the three-way primary with 38% of the vote after former Congressman Joe DioGuardi's 42%.[9] In 2012, he wrote a chapter titled "Sound Money, Sound Policy" in The 4% Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs, published by the George W. Bush Presidential Center.[10][11]

Malpass has written regularly for Forbes and has been a contributor to the op-ed section of The Wall Street Journal.[5][12] He is also a frequent television commentator.[13][14]

In August 2007, before the housing market collapse that triggered the financial crisis of 2007–2008, Malpass wrote in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal that "Housing and debt markets are not that big a part of the U.S. economy, or of job creation ... the housing- and debt-market corrections will probably add to the length of the U.S. economic expansion."[15] In 2012 in the New York Times Economix blog, Bruce Bartlett cited Malpass's mid-2008 forecast of economic growth and his September 2012 forecast of recession as examples of partisan bias in economic forecasts.[16]

Trump advisor

On August 5, 2016 Malpass was announced as a senior economic advisor to Donald Trump's presidential campaign.[17][18][19] He appeared on television and radio to support Trump's message of faster growth through policy reforms.[20][21][22] Four of his pre-election Forbes columns discussed the need for political reform or upheaval.[23][24] His September 1, 2016 op-ed in The New York Times, "Why This Economy Needs Donald Trump", described potential faster growth through a policy upheaval covering economic policy, taxes, trade, and regulations.[25] After the election, Malpass headed the transition team's work on economic policy and the Treasury Department.[26][27][28]

Under Secretary of the Treasury

Malpass's official photo as Under Secretary

In March 2017, the White House announced Malpass as President Trump's nominee for Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs.[29] Malpass was confirmed for the position by the United States Senate on August 3, 2017.[30]

Malpass took a critical position on China during his tenure.[31] In July 2018 he was described by Bloomberg News as "a champion of President Donald Trump's protectionist message".[32]

World Bank President

In February 2019, Trump announced Malpass as the nominee for President of the World Bank, succeeding Jim Yong Kim, who had announced in January 2019 that he would be stepping down three years prior to the end of his second five-year term.[3] Malpass was unanimously approved by the executive board on April 5, 2019,[4][33] and began his term on April 9.[34] During the start of his tenure, Malpass focused in his early public comments on the global economy and debt transparency.[35]

In his first two years as World Bank president, he treaded carefully when discussing the causes of global warming.[35] After the inauguration of Joe Biden in early 2021, American policy shifted towards prioritizing efforts against climate change, and Malpass increasingly began working and speaking on climate policy.[35] In April 2021, the World Bank released a five-year Climate Change Action Plan that pledged 35% of World Bank financing to climate co-benefits and 50% of its climate financing to climate change adaptation, and pledged to fully align the World Bank's financing goals with the Paris Agreement by 2023.[35] The plan was praised, with some concern that 35% could be too low or that the plan did not halt all World Bank fossil fuel projects.[35]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Malpass won praise for supporting developing countries' recovery efforts and being able to quickly use World Bank financing.[35]

On September 20, 2022, former U.S. Vice President and environmentalist Al Gore labelled Malpass a climate change denier and called for Biden to replace him during an event focusing on climate change hosted by The New York Times.[36] Appearing separately from Gore at the event, Malpass was asked three times by journalist David Gelles if he accepted the scientific consensus on climate change that "the man-made burning of fossil fuels is rapidly and dangerously warming the planet";[37] Malpass replied, "I'm not a scientist."[36] This answer prompted criticism from climate policy makers such as Rachel Kyte and Mark Carney, and calls for his resignation from the Rocky Mountain Institute and Christiana Figueres, among others.[36] On September 21, the United States Department of the Treasury issued a statement that it expected World Bank leadership to take a leading role on climate issues.[36] On September 22, Malpass said in both an internal memo to World Bank staff and on an interview with CNN International that he accepted the scientific consensus on human activity causing climate change and that he was not a "denier".[36]

In mid February 2023, Malpass announced his intention to end his term as president of the bank by the end of the bank's fiscal year in June 2023.[38]

Additional posts

Malpass sits on the boards of UBS Funds, the New Mountain Financial Corporation,[39] and the Gary Klinsky Children's Center. He is also a former director of the National Committee on United States–China Relations, the Council of the Americas, and the Economic Club of New York, and a former member of the board of trustees of the Manhattan Institute.

Personal life

Malpass and his wife, Adele, daughter of Herman Obermayer and granddaughter of Neville Levy, live in New York City. They have four children.[40][41]

Adele Malpass was appointed as the Chairwoman of the Manhattan Republican Party[42] in January 2015 and was elected to a two-year term in September 2015.[43][44] She was succeeded in the role by Andrea Catsimatidis after resigning to move to Washington when Malpass was appointed to his role in the Treasury Department under President Trump.[45][46][47] As of September 22, 2022, Adele Malpass was the president of The Daily Caller News Foundation, a non-profit organization linked with the eponymous news organization.[36]

Malpass speaks Spanish, Russian, and French.[48][49]

References

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  4. ^ a b c Hsu, Tiffany (April 5, 2019). "David Malpass, Trump's Pick to Lead World Bank, Is Approved". The New York Times. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
  5. ^ a b c "David Malpass (author profile)". National Review. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
  6. ^ Malpass, David (November 15, 2019). "Greater Transparency for Broad-Based Growth". WorldBank.org. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
  7. ^ Montet, Virginie (February 6, 2019). "Trump taps a fierce critic to lead World Bank". Yahoo! News. AFP. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
  8. ^ Keating, Raymond J. (June 29, 2010). "David Malpass Runs for Senate". National Review. Archived from the original on July 1, 2010.
  9. ^ Hernández, Javier C. (September 15, 2010). "In Tight Republican Race, DioGuardi Is Chosen to Face Gillibrand". The New York Times. Retrieved November 16, 2024.
  10. ^ "The 4% Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs". George W. Bush Presidential Center. July 2012. Retrieved November 16, 2024.
  11. ^ Malpass, David (2012). "Sound Money, Sound Policy". In The Bush Institute (ed.). The 4% Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs. Crown Publishing. pp. 94–107. ISBN 9780307986146.
  12. ^ "David Malpass". Bruegel. Retrieved November 16, 2024.
  13. ^ "David Malpass '76 Selected as New Head of World Bank" (PDF). Colorado College Bulletin. Colorado College. Spring 2019. p. 42. Retrieved November 16, 2024.
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  22. ^ "Bloomberg Best: From Our Bureaus Worldwide - Aug. 9 (Audio)". Bloomberg Radio. August 9, 2016. Retrieved November 17, 2024.
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  39. ^ "David R. Malpass". New Mountain Finance Corporation. Archived from the original on October 12, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
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  42. ^ "Adele Malpass - Manhattan Republican Party". Manhattan Republican Party. 2016. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
  43. ^ Goodwin, Michael (May 12, 2015). "Courageous GOPer has eye on corruption". New York Post. Retrieved April 22, 2019. Adele Malpass, who deserves the red badge of courage for agreeing to lead the Manhattan Republican Party, offers a way for the GOP to distinguish itself in Albany.
  44. ^ "Statement from Manhattan GOP Chairwoman Adele Malpass on Her Election". Manhattan Republican Party. September 29, 2015. Archived from the original on July 29, 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2019. I am honored to have been elected last evening to serve as the New York County Republican Chairwoman for the next two years. Since my appointment in January by New York State GOP Chairman, Ed Cox, I have ...
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  47. ^ Reisman, Nick (August 2, 2017). "Leadership Fight For Manhattan GOP". New York State of Politics, Capital Tonight. Spectrum News Capital Region. Archived from the original on April 22, 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2019. Republicans in Manhattan have a leadership race unfolding after the resignation of Chairwoman Adele Malpass, pitting the daughter of a top donor against a former candidate for city comptroller. A source familiar with the situation said Malpass resigned this week as her husband David is set to take a post in the Trump administration's Treasury Department.
  48. ^ Fouhy, Beth (April 14, 2010). "David Malpass For Senate: Republican Economist To Challenge Gillibrand". The Huffington Post.
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