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Mark Malloch Brown

The Right Honourable
The Lord Malloch-Brown
KCMG PC
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Minister of State for Africa, Asia and the United Nations
In office
28 June 2007 – 24 July 2009
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by The Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead (Africa and the United Nations)
Chris Bryant (Undersecretary of State for Europe and Asia)
2nd Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
In office
1 April 2006 – 31 December 2006
Secretary-General Kofi Annan
Preceded by Louise Fréchette
Succeeded by Asha-Rose Migiro
Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
In office
1 July 1999 – 15 August 2005
Secretary-General Kofi Annan
Preceded by James Speth
Succeeded by Kemal Derviş
Member of the House of Lords
In office
9 July 2007 – 7 September 2015
on Leave of Absence
Personal details
Born (1953-09-16) 16 September 1953 (age 63)
Political party Crossbench
Labour (fmr.)
Alma mater Magdalene College, Cambridge
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

George Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown KCMG PC (born 16 September 1953) is a former UK government minister (2007 – 2009) and United Nations Deputy Secretary-General (2006), as well as development specialist at the World Bank and United Nations (1994 – 2005), and a communications consultant and journalist. He was Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the British government with responsibility for Africa, Asia and the United Nations (June 2007 - July 2009). Following his appointment to government, Malloch Brown was created a life peer on 9 July 2007 as Baron Malloch-Brown, of St Leonard's Forest in the County of West Sussex (his title is hyphenated but his surname is not). Malloch Brown was previously at the World Bank (1994–1999), the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (1999–2005) and briefly United Nations Deputy Secretary-General (April to December 2006). He had previously worked at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1979–1983). He is also a former journalist for The Economist, development specialist, and communications consultant. He has served as Chair of the Royal African Society, among other non-governmental and private sector roles, such as membership of the Executive Committee of the International Crisis Group.

Malloch Brown was born in England in 1953 to a South African diplomat who had been exiled. He was educated at Marlborough College, and earned a First Class Honours Degree in History from Magdalene College, Cambridge and a master's degree in Political Science from the University of Michigan. He is an only child, but has four children with his wife.


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