Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, KCMG
Mark Malloch-Brown has worked to advance human rights, justice, and development for more than four decades in a variety of roles: with the United Nations, the World Bank, and as a British government minister, as well as with a range of civil society groups and businesses. At the United Nations, Mark Malloch-Brown led the global promotion of the UN Millennium Development Goals as head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP). At the UNDP, and previously as vice president of external affairs at the World Bank, he led reform efforts to increase the impact of both organisations. He later served as Kofi Annan's chief of staff, and then as UN Deputy Secretary General, before joining the British government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, as minister responsible for Africa and Asia from 2007 to 2009. Most recently, he was president of the Open Society Foundations, the world's largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic governance, and human rights.
Mark Malloch-Brown was knighted for his contributions to international affairs and is currently on leave from the British House of Lords. He is a Visiting Professor in Practice at the LSE's Marshall Institute, a Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House, and has been a visiting distinguished fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. Mark will be a Fellow at Stellenbosch University this fall.
