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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Personal details | |
Born | 16 September 1953 |
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.