The Lord Malloch-Brown | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2007 | |
| Minister of State for Africa and the United Nations | |
| In office 28 June 2007 – 24 July 2009 | |
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Brian Wilson[a] |
| Succeeded by | The Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead |
| 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 Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 9 July 2007 Life Peerage | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | George Mark Malloch Brown 16 September 1953 London, England, UK |
| Political party | Labour (former) Crossbench |
| Spouse |
Trish Cronan (m. 1989) |
| Children | 4 |
| Education | Magdalene College, Cambridge (BA) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MA) |
George Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown[b] KCMG PC (born 16 September 1953) is a British diplomat, communications consultant, journalist and former politician serving as president of Open Society Foundations since 2021, having previously served as Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations under Kofi Annan from April to December 2006. A former member of the Labour Party, he served as Minister of State for Africa and the United Nations in the Brown government from 2007 to 2009.
Born in Marylebone, Malloch Brown studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge and the University of Michigan. He was a political correspondent for The Economist between 1977 and 1979 and then worked for the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1979 to 1983. After acting as a lead international partner at American public relations firm Sawyer-Miller, he was a development specialist at the World Bank from 1994 to 1999, administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from 1999 to 2005 and United Nations Deputy Secretary-General from April to December 2006.
Malloch Brown joined the government of Gordon Brown in 2007 at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and was elevated to the House of Lords as a life peer. After stepping down from the government in 2009 due to family and personal reasons, he was appointed chairman of global affairs for FTI Consulting a year later. In 2014, he was appointed chairman of the board of directors of election technology manufacturer Smartmatic's holding company. He served as president of Open Society Foundations from January 2021 until June 2024.
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