Marrack Goulding

Sir Marrack Goulding KCMG
Marrack Goulding in 1992
Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
In office 1 January 1986 – July 1997
Personal details
Born	(1936-09-02)2 September 1936 Plymouth, Devon, England
Died	9 July 2010(2010-07-09) (aged 73)
Nationality	British
Alma mater	St Paul's School, London Magdalen College, Oxford

Sir Marrack Goulding KCMG (2 September 1936 – 9 July 2010) was a British diplomat who served more than eleven years as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Born in Plymouth in Devon, England, Goulding attended St Paul's School in London and later studied Literae Humaniores at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Goulding entered HM Diplomatic Service in 1959 and was, in 1961, posted to the British Embassy in Kuwait. He returned to the United Kingdom in 1964, where he worked in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 1968, he was once more posted overseas, as the Head of Chancery of the British Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, and later of the Embassy in Cairo, Egypt.

Goulding spent the following few years in the UK, working first in the Foreign Office as Private Secretary to three Ministers of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs – including Roy Hattersley and Julian Amery, Baron Amery of Lustleigh – and then in the Cabinet Office. He was posted to the British Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1977, and to the United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations in New York City in 1979. In 1983, he was appointed Ambassador for the United Kingdom to Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe, and served in this capacity until 1985.