The Rt.Hon Lord Malloch-Brown

Mark Malloch-Brown was appointed the Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN attending Cabinet in June 2007.

He served as Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations from April to December 2006. Before this, from January 2005, he had been the Secretary-General’s Chef de Cabinet. Partly concurrently, he served from July 1999 until August 2005 as Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. After stepping down from the UN, he briefly took up the role of Vice Chairman of Soros Fund Management.

Before the UN, he worked at the World Bank, joining in 1994 as Director of External Affairs and subsequently serving as Vice-President for External Affairs and Vice-President for United Nations Affairs from 1996 to 1999.

Before joining the World Bank, he was the lead international partner from 1986 to 1994 in a strategic communications management firm, the Sawyer-Miller Group, where he worked with corporations and governments.

He founded The Economist Development Report and served as the Report’s editor from 1983 to 1986. Previously, from 1977 to 1979, he had been the political correspondent of The Economist.

From 1979 to 1983, he worked for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). From 1979 to 1981, he was stationed in Thailand, where he was in charge of field operations for Cambodian refugees.

He received a First Class Honours Degree in History from Magdalene College, Cambridge University, and a Master's Degree in Political Science from the University of Michigan, and is the recipient of a number of honorary degrees and awards. At the end of 2006, he became a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation at Yale University. Aged 53, he is married with four children.