Factor is visiting senior fellow in entrepreneurship at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, U.K.[8][9] He was the John C. West Professor (Emeritus) of International Politics and American Government at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.[10]
With his wife Lady Elizabeth Factor, he is co-author of Shadowbosses (2012) and Big Tent: The Story of the Conservative Revolution (2014), which were both New York Times bestsellers.[11][12]
Factor speaking at an event in Chantilly, Virginia.
In 2015, Factor founded IntraBio Inc, a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company that develops and commercializes novel treatments for rare and common neurodegenerative diseases. In September 2017, the company announced its plans for a multi-national pivotal trial for acetylleucine for the treatment of Niemann–Pick type C, Tay–Sachs disease, and cerebellar ataxia subtypes.[17] In 2020, IntraBio announced the successful multinational clinical trial results of the Niemann-Pick type C clinical trial.[18] In 2021, IntraBio announced the successful multinational clinical trial results of the GM2 Gangliosidosis clinical trial.[19]
In June 2023, IntraBio announced positive results from the pivotal, Phase III IB1001-301 multinational, randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover clinical trial. On September 24, 2024 the US FDA approved AQNEURSA™️ (levacetylleucine) for the treatment of neurological manifestations of Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC) in adults and pediatric patients weighing ≥15kg.[20]
He was chairman of the New York Public Asset Fund from 2002 to 2006 and vice-chairman of Governor's Island Preservation and Education Corporation from 2006 to 2007. Factor was a member of the Banking Board of the New York State Banking Department from 2001 to 2007. From 1987 to 1988, he was a member of the Federal Savings and Loan Advisory Council for the Federal Home Loan Bank. He has been an underwriting member of Lloyd's of London since 1987.[22]
He was president of Mallory Factor, Inc., an independent merchant bank and financial relations consultancy that he founded in 1976.[29] Factor's first job after graduating was serving as a supervisor of management consulting services at Coopers & Lybrand.
Civic service
Factor was co-founder and host of The New York Meeting[30] and the host of The Charleston Meeting, gatherings of elected officials, journalists, business leaders and authors in New York City and Charleston, South Carolina.[31][32] He was co-founder and co-chair of The Monday Meeting (with James E. Higgins).[33]
He co-founded[34] and was the chairman of the Free Enterprise Fund, a free market "do" tank advocating economic growth, lower taxes and limited government.[35]
He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was vice-chair of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Terrorism Financing.[36][37] He has 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.[38] Factor chaired 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.[39]
