Ted Malloch

Theodore Roosevelt Malloch (born September 22, 1952) is an American author, consultant, and television producer.

He was a professor at the Henley Business School of the University of Reading, England.

He is chairman and chief executive officer of the family firm Global Fiduciary Governance and served as chairman and CEO of The Roosevelt Group.

He is the author of several books, including Doing Virtuous Business.

Malloch was born at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 22, 1952, and grew up in Rittenhouse Square, Olney and Main Line.

Malloch earned an M.Litt.

degree from the University of Aberdeen and a BA from Gordon College.

He earned his Ph.D. in International Political Economy from the University of Toronto in 1980.

Malloch was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts.

He was a Professor of Strategic Leadership and Governance at Henley Business School, University of Reading.

He was a Senior Fellow of the Aspen Institute and President of the CNN World Economic Development Congress.

Malloch first met Trump in the 1980s in Palm Beach, Florida.

He served in the United Nations at the UNECE in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1988 to 1992.

Malloch served on the executive board of the World Economic Forum and consulted at Wharton-Chase Econometrics.

He worked at Salomon Brothers bank and in senior policy positions at the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and in the U.S. State Department.

He was co-director of the Academy of Business in Society Practical Wisdom program, on spiritual traditions and management.

He was a research scholar for the Spiritual Capital Initiative at Yale University and also worked in management practice at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

He has served on the University of Toronto International Governing Council, a Pew Charitable Trust board, and the Templeton Foundation.

He has also served as an adviser to The Hudson Institute, American Foreign Policy Council, Institute of Economic Analysis, and the Social Affairs Unit and the Institute of Economic Affairs.

On 16 November 2016 Malloch was interviewed by Evan Davis on the BBC's Newsnight program in connection with the reported likelihood of his being appointed by then US President-Elect Donald Trump to an unspecified role.

Malloch stated that he had been extensively consulted by Trump throughout the Presidential election campaign.

Bloomberg reported that this position could be the US Ambassador to the European Union, which caused strong reactions in the European Parliament.

On 30 November 2016, Malloch was part of a live panel discussion titled "Trump: An American Tragedy?", part of the British series Intelligence Squared that aims to provoke debate and intelligent discussion.

At the video-recorded event, Malloch became irked by another panelist's assertion that then President-Elect "Donald Trump lies on Twitter every day."

Malloch took the position that former President Barack Obama had lied every day on Twitter.

Other panelists and the large audience disagreed with Malloch's statement: "I said we've had a president who's lied every day on Twitter for eight years."

The moderator Jonathan Freedland restated Malloch's position, asking for clarification, "You think Obama's lied every day?"

Malloch's answer prompted dissent from others in attendance when he stated, "Absolutely. I know he's a great favourite in London. [...] He came over here and tried to get people to vote against Brexit."

Freedland's position, also repeated by other panelists, was, "That's not a lie. I mean, urging people to vote on Brexit one way may be unwise, but it wasn't untrue."

Malloch sarcastically asked, "It wasn't untrue?"

Explaining further, Freedland said, "He offered an opinion. I don't know how that could be untrue."

Recognizing the position taken by Malloch, another panelist urged the moderator to "just move on [from this fruitless argument]."

In February 2017 Malloch was reported to be a candidate for ambassadorship to the EU.

This prompted unusually strong disapproval from EU politicians.

That same month, the Financial Times reported that he had made a number of false statements in his autobiography.

In early February 2017, media reported that Malloch was a leading candidate for ambassadorship to the EU, which prompted unusually strong disapproval from EU politicians.

Asked why he wanted to become ambassador to the EU in an interview the month before, Malloch told BBC News: "I had in a previous career a diplomatic post where I helped bring down the Soviet Union. So maybe there's another union that needs a little taming."

Malloch was a vocal supporter of UK withdrawal from the EU and has expressed his view that the euro would collapse.

On Bloomberg TV Malloch stated that he hoped all EU members would hold referendums on whether to leave the bloc.

In an interview with Greek television, Malloch expressed his view that Greece will soon need to leave the euro.