Mark Malloch Brown

The Right Honourable The Lord Malloch-Brown KCMG PC
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
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 July 2007 Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	George Mark Malloch Brown (1953-09-16) 16 September 1953 (age 70) 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 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 lead international partner at American public relations firm Sawyer-Miller, he was 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. In December 2020, he was chosen to serve as president of Open Society Foundations starting in January 2021.
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