Mark Lowcock

Sir Mark Andrew LowcockKCB (born 25 July 1962) is a British civil servant. Since June 2011, he has served as the Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development (DFID).

On 12 May 2017, he was appointed United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator by Secretary-General António Guterres. He will assume this position in September 2017, and will succeed Stephen O’Brien who has served the United Nations since May 2015.

Lowcock attended Culford School in Suffolk before attending Oxford University, where he graduated with a degree in Economics and History. He was later awarded a Master’s degree in Economics from Birkbeck College, University of London, before moving to Boston to study economics and business as a graduate fellow. He is a qualified accountant and a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy.

Lowcock joined DFID (formerly the Overseas Development Administration) in 1985, where he has occupied a diverse range of roles, including: • Private Secretary to Baroness Chalker, Minister for Overseas Development from 1992 to 1994 • Deputy Head and Head of the DFID Regional Office for Central Africa from 1994 to 1997 • Head of European Union Department from 1997 to 1999, before returning to Africa as Head of the DFID Regional Office for East Africa • Director, Finance and Corporate Performance, from 2001 to 2003 and Director General, Corporate Performance and Knowledge Sharing from 2003 to 2006 • Director General, Policy and International from 2006 to 2008 and Director General, Country Programmes from 2008 to 2011

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