LSE public lecture
Date: Thursday 15 November 2007
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Lord Mark Malloch-Brown
Mark Malloch-Brown was appointed the Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN attending Cabinet in June 2007. His responsibilities include Africa, Asia (Afghanistan, Sub-Continent and Far East), the UN, the Commonwealth, human rights, global and economic issues, and FCO Services, as well as FCO business in the House of Lords.
He served as Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations from April-December 2006. Before this, from January 2005, he had been the Secretary-General's Chef de Cabinet. Partly concurrently, he served from July 1999 until August 2005 as Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. After stepping down from the UN, he briefly took up the role of Vice Chairman of Soros Fund Management.
Before the UN, he worked at the World Bank, joining in 1994 as Director of External Affairs and subsequently serving as Vice-President for External Affairs and Vice-President for United Nations Affairs from 1996 to 1999.
This event is supported by the LSE Annual Fund.
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