Former World Bank president to join Purdue’s Daniels school
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David Malpass, a former president of the World Bank, will join Purdue University’s Daniels School of Business as a distinguished fellow next year.
Malpass led the World Bank Group from April 2019 to June 2023. Beginning Jan. 1, he will split his time between Washington, D.C. and Purdue’s West Lafayette and Indianapolis campuses.
“I’m very pleased to be affiliated with Purdue University, its innovative leaders and the business school that builds on Mitch Daniels’ contributions to educational excellence,” Malpass said in a Purdue University news release. “I look forward to sharing my public and private sector experiences to strengthen business leadership and am happy to become part of Purdue’s mission of being a leader in business education.”
Malpass has been given the titles of Distinguished Fellow of International Finance at the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business and Inaugural Fellow of Global Business and Infrastructure at Purdue@DC.
The former World Bank head has experience working on Wall Street and in the public sector, including roles as deputy assistant secretary of the treasury and deputy assistant secretary of state to the undersecretary of the treasury for international affairs. He’s also served on the boards of the Manhattan Institute, the Council of the Americas and the Economic Club of New York.
“David Malpass has been a truly impactful leader of international finance, infrastructure and business, especially his leadership during the major disruptions to the global economy from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ukraine war, and the sharp increases in inflation and interest rates,” Purdue University President Mung Chiang said in the release. “His joining the Daniels School of Business is another transformative growth of talent at Purdue University that will provide many exciting opportunities for many of our students and for Purdue@DC.”
Malpass will offer lectures, faculty research conversations, thought leadership events and student and alumni conversations in his new role with Purdue. His joining the Daniels school comes several months after the university named Jim Bullard, a former president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, the inaugural dean of the business school.
“It’s outstanding for Purdue to hire this brilliant leader,” Bullard said in the release. “He is well respected in the business world and was a steadfast leader at the World Bank, creating solutions for some of the world’s most pressing issues. His insights and contributions will be relevant and timely to our faculty, staff, students and alumni, and his presence will only add to the momentum that the Daniels School is building.”