Mallory Factor is an American businessman and political activist. He is president of MALLORY FACTOR INC, an independent merchant bank and financial relations consultancy that he founded in 1976. Mr. Factor and his firm advise companies in a wide range of industries including biotechnology, financial services and manufacturing.
Factor is the co-founder and co-chair of the Monday Meeting, a nationally-recognized gathering of elected officials, journalists, business leaders and conservative authors in New York City, and a similar gathering in Charleston, SC known as The Charleston Meeting. Previously, he served as chairman of the Free Enterprise Fund, a free market “do” tank advocating economic growth, lower taxes and limited government.
Mallory Factor is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and recently served as Vice-Chair of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Terrorism Financing. He has frequently testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate on terror financing, regulation of the financial services industry and other economic issues. Mr. Factor chairs the Economic Roundtable for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and led the 2009 Economic Summit for the U.S. House Republican Conference and Policy Committee in Washington, D.C.
Factor held adjunct professorships at the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at New York University from 1992 to 1996, and at the Graduate School of Management and Urban Professions at the New School for Social Research from 1985 to 1992. Factor is currently the John C. West Professor of International Politics and American Government at The Citadel in Charleston, SC.
