Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown

Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown, 2008

George Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown , KCMG , PC (born September 16, 1953 ) is a British journalist , economist and was Minister of State for Africa , Asia and the UN in the government of Gordon Brown from June 2007 to October 2009 .

career

Malloch Brown attended Marlborough College and then studied history at Magdalene College , Cambridge . He graduated with a master's degree in political science from the University of Michigan .

He began his career in journalism as a political correspondent for The Economist magazine (1977–1979) and founding editor of the Economist Development Report . From 1986 to 1994 he was a leading international partner in the Sawyer-Miller Group before moving to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees , for which he led the operations for Cambodian refugees in Thailand .

Malloch Brown held the position of UNDP administrator from 1999 to 2005, which is generally regarded as the third highest function of the UN . Before that, he held managerial positions at the World Bank , including a. as Vice President for External Affairs. In this role he was also responsible for relations with the United Nations.

He succeeded the Canadian Louise Fréchette as Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations on April 1, 2006 , after he had previously been Head of Cabinet of the incumbent Secretary-General Kofi Annan . He held this position until the end of Annan's tenure in December 2006.

On June 27, 2007 it was announced that Malloch Brown would join the cabinet of the new Prime Minister Gordon Brown as Secretary of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). His responsibilities included Asia, Africa and the United Nations. Furthermore, on July 9, 2007, he was appointed as Baron Malloch-Brown , of St Leonard's Forest in the County of West Sussex, a Life Peer and thus a member of the House of Lords for life . At the end of July 2009, he said he resigned from his ministerial post for personal and family reasons.

Since 2010, Malloch Brown has been Chairman of FTI Consulting , based in Washington, DC

Web links

Lord Malloch-Brown at parliament.uk
Chef de Cabinet

Individual evidence

^ The London Gazette : No. 58391, p. 10139 , HMSO, July 13, 2007.

personal data
SURNAME	Malloch Brown, Mark, Baron Malloch-Brown
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Malloch Brown, George Mark, Baron Malloch-Brown (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British journalist, economist and top UN official
DATE OF BIRTH	September 16, 1953

[1] The London Gazette : No. 58391, p. 10139 , HMSO, July 13, 2007.