Dr Pippa Malmgren gained her doctorate from the London School of Economics and previously worked at the Whitehouse as an economic advisor to the Bush administration . She founded DRPM Group to help companies , investors and policymakers better understand how risk and prices will move across the economic landscape . Malmgren aims to connect the dots , bringing together insights about markets , politics , policy and geopolitics that signal important and investable trends . She has an especially strong view on the importance of manufacturing in modern economies and is also a co-founder of H Robotics , now part of DRPM Group , a manufacturing firm in the UK that builds non-weaponised drones for industrial use . Her recently published best-selling book ‘ The Leadership Lab - Understanding Leadership in the 21st Century ’ was recognised by the FT as its Business Book of the Month October 2018 .
Malmgren highlights differing philosophies in the drone industry . “ China ’ s approach is build-to-break . It ’ s a production line and they want you to come back and upgrade … We decided to build something that ’ s almost unbreakable , and it ’ s modular . If you do manage to break an arm , for example , you simply remove it , snap a new one on , and you ’ re back at work . And that matters because when you ’ re running a mining operation you can ’ t afford the downtime while you wait for a new device to be sent . At H Robotics , we ’ ll replace everything , no questions asked , as long as it was operated autonomously , full replacement at no cost . This is a total change in how the industry supplies hardware .” Malmgren notes the American philosophy is built around the only person capable of flying a drone being a highly qualified military pilot . “ The industry is
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Dr Pippa Malmgren gained her doctorate from the London School of Economics and previously worked at the Whitehouse as an economic advisor to the Bush administration . She founded DRPM Group to help companies , investors and policymakers better understand how risk and prices will move across the economic landscape . Malmgren aims to connect the dots , bringing together insights about markets , politics , policy and geopolitics that signal important and investable trends . She has an especially strong view on the importance of manufacturing in modern economies and is also a co-founder of H Robotics , now part of DRPM Group , a manufacturing firm in the UK that builds non-weaponised drones for industrial use . Her recently published best-selling book ‘ The Leadership Lab - Understanding Leadership in the 21st Century ’ was recognised by the FT as its Business Book of the Month October 2018 .
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