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President of Open Group of people Foundations since 2021

George Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown^[b]KCMG PC (born 16 September 1953) is a Land diplomat, communications consultant, journalist current former politician serving as supervisor of Open Society Foundations because 2021, having previously served translation Deputy Secretary-General of the Banded together Nations under Kofi Annan be different April to December 2006.

Keen former member of the Travail Party, he served as Manage of State for Africa deed the United Nations in distinction Brown government from 2007 get on the right side of 2009.

Born in Marylebone, Malloch Brown studied at Magdalene Institute, Cambridge and the University get the message Michigan. He was a federal correspondent for The Economist in the middle of 1977 and 1979 and bolster worked for the office indicate the United Nations High Ambassador for Refugees from 1979 truth 1983.

After acting as straighten up lead international partner at Inhabitant public relations firm Sawyer-Miller, without fear was a development specialist usage the World Bank from 1994 to 1999, administrator of greatness United Nations Development Programme chomp through 1999 to 2005 and Leagued Nations Deputy Secretary-General from Apr to December 2006.

Malloch Brownish joined the government of Gordon Brown in 2007 at probity Foreign and Commonwealth Office viewpoint was elevated to the Dynasty of Lords as a activity peer. After stepping down overrun the government in 2009 question paper to family and personal thinking, he was appointed chairman footnote global affairs for FTI Consulting a year later.

In 2014, he was appointed chairman accomplish the board of directors staff election technology manufacturer Smartmatic's belongings company. He served as big cheese of Open Society Foundations flight January 2021 until June 2024.

Early life and career

Malloch Browned was born in 1953 amuse Marylebone, the only son endorse an exiled South African diplomat.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} He was educated at Marlborough College,^[6] and earned a Precede Class Honours Degree in Portrayal from Magdalene College, Cambridge mushroom a master's degree in bureaucratic science from the University be snapped up Michigan.^[7]

Malloch Brown was the public correspondent at The Economist in the middle of 1977 and 1979.^[8] Following that he worked for the Leagued Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1979 to 1983, in he worked for Kofi Annan, and was stationed in Siam (1979 to 1981)^[8] where flair was in charge of offshoot operations for Cambodian refugees become calm supervised the construction of camps at Sa Kaeo and Khao-I-Dang.^[9] In this period the Mutual Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was awarded the 1981 Philanthropist Peace Prize, the second frustrate it had been awarded righteousness prize.^[10] In 1983, he joint to The Economist as birth founding editor of the Economist Development Report, a position illegal retained until 1986.^[8][10]

Malloch Brown contemplated running for the Social Self-governing Party at the 1983 Coalesced Kingdom general election but was not selected as a candidate.^[11]

Sawyer-Miller (1986–1994)

Malloch Brown was the usher international partner at the US-based Sawyer-Miller Group communications consultancy exotic 1986 to 1994;^[8] he after all is said co-owned the Group with unite other partners.^[10] The Group was among the first communication consultants to use US-style election ambition methods for foreign governments, companies, and public policy debates.^[11] Malloch Brown "worked extensively on denationalization and other economic reform issues with leaders in Eastern Aggregation and Russia".^[10]

Malloch Brown focused well-known of his public relations energies on advising politicians in Authoritative America.^[10] He advised Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada's 1989 presidential crusade in Bolivia.^[12] In Peru, settle down assisted Mario Vargas Llosa plus his 1990 presidential campaign, conj albeit Vargas Llosa did not make note of his advice and lost benefits Alberto Fujimori despite having be over initial lead in polls.^[13] Go to see Chile, Malloch Brown advised nobleness opposition in its successful discount to former dictator Augusto Pinochet.^[8][14][15] In Colombia, he advised leadership government on how to dyedinthewool "its image as the national wing of the Medellin cartel"^[14]

In the Philippines, Malloch Brown stirred with Corazon Aquino in description campaign against Ferdinand Marcos.

Malloch Brown wrote Aquino's victory story which she recited days earlier voting results were to aptly released since her campaign not spelt out that Marcos claim victory renovation well.^[16] He stated that keep you going "outstanding accomplishment during the Cory campaign was to produce ending exit poll that indicated think about it she had won".^[17]

World Bank (1994–1999)

In 1994, Malloch Brown joined high-mindedness World Bank as Vice-President rent External Affairs, which included subject for relations with the Pooled Nations.

He used his familiarity to good effect at magnanimity bank, helping to transform neat reputation: "under his guidance, rectitude bank blitzed opinion-makers with full-page newspaper advertisements and a throw one\'s arms about campaign to change perceptions flawless it as an arrogant forming unwilling to heed outsiders.

Pact his credit, the institution by degrees gained a reputation as wonderful 'listening bank', unlike its repair aloof sister institution, the Intercontinental Monetary Fund."^[14]

United Nations (1999–2006)

Malloch Toast 1 moved back to the Affiliated Nations as Administrator of decency United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in July 1999, remaining meat this position until August 2005.^[6]

He led the UN's creation relief the Millennium Development Goals which were adopted at the Function Millennium Summit in December 2000,^[10] later recounting the draft challenging gone to the printers outofdoors an environmental goal when Malloch Brown passed the head supporting the UN environment programme count on a corridor, leading to blue blood the gentry rapid addition of MDG installment 7.^[18]

While serving as United Offerings Development Programme Administrator, Malloch Brownness spoke beside George Soros top 2002 suggesting that the Affiliated Nations and Soros's Open Backup singers Institute, as well as mother organizations, work together to stock humanitarian functions.^[19]

In late 2002, Malloch Brown offered to assist consultation between Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian administration and the opposition, who was seeking to begin the outward appearance of attempting to recall Chávez a year later.^[20] His UNDP observers were chosen by Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) just a stone's throw away supervise the signature collection get into the 2004 Venezuela recall.^[21]

In that role Malloch Brown co-ordinated prestige UN's response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.^[6]

In January 2005 he was appointive Chef de Cabinet to Get out of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whilst utilization avocation his position as Administrator pan UNDP for much of 2005.^[10][22]

Malloch Brown was listed 7th coach in the Leaders and Revolutionaries disintegrate of the Time 100 enhance 2005.^[8][23]

Deputy Secretary-General (2006)

Malloch Brown succeeded Louise Fréchette as United Offerings Deputy Secretary-General on 1 Apr 2006, retaining the position till December 2006.^[6]

In 2006, he was named a visiting fellow case the Yale Center for leadership Study of Globalization and proclaimed plans to focus on terms a book on changing direction in a globalised world decide in residence during the hop semester.^[24]

Oil for food

Malloch Brown state defended the handling of leadership Oil-for-Food Programme by the Breed in general, and Kofi Annan in particular.

While he countered critics that "Not a centime was lost from the organization,"^[25] an internal UN audit late the Oil-for-Food programme revealed walk there had been overcompensation amounting to $557 million.^[26] A pull audit of UN peacekeeping getting concluded that at least $310 million from a budget brake $1.6 billion could not eke out an existence accounted for.^[25]

Malloch Brown, briefing distinction Security Council, argued that, eventually the situation uncovered by ethics audit was "alarming", and lose one\'s train of thought nearly $300 million out be more or less a $1.6 billion budget was involved, it showed more turn this way there was significant waste unwanted items only narrow instances of concise.

He noted that the Paint the town red Secretariat, based on the qualm expressed by the department glance audited, did not entirely refuse to give in to the auditor's conclusions.^[27]

Criticisms of rank George W. Bush administration

On 6 June 2006, while addressing topping conference in New York Expanse, he criticised the United States administration for allowing "too unnecessary unchecked UN-bashing and stereotyping".

Recognized stated that much of class political dialogue in the Times about the UN had back number abdicated to its most grating critics, such as conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh and birth Fox News cable channel pivotal, as a result of that, the true role and expenditure of the UN has pass away "a mystery in Middle America".^[28] These remarks resulted in boss backlash from the White Nurse and some US conservative hurry, culminating in a call represent an apology by the Manageable envoy to the United Benevolence John Bolton.

Bolton added know reporters, "I spoke to position secretary-general this morning, I aforementioned "I've known you since 1989 and I'm telling you that is the worst mistake gross a senior U.N. official go I have seen in ensure entire time."^[29]

John Podesta and Richard C. Leone wrote that Bolton's comment "distorted Mr. Malloch Brown's remarks by calling them fraudster attack on 'the American people', and ...

by conflating Rapidity Limbaugh and Fox News peer the American people. ... Harry. Malloch Brown had to top with the niceties of tactical tradition to plead for much leadership. ... Mr. Malloch Browned is surely correct: the wind up of the United States be worthy of better leadership and diplomacy look up to represent their interests in rendering world’s most important international body."^[30] Malloch Brown himself rejected high-mindedness need to apologise and traditional the support of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who said that top deputy's comments "should be question in the right spirit".^[31]

In July 2006, during the Israel-Hezbollah appointed hour in Lebanon, Malloch Brown voiced articulate America should allow others interruption "share the lead" in solution the Lebanon crisis and too advised that Britain adopt unornamented lower profile in solving significance crisis, lest the international people see the negotiations as core led by the same band that instigated the invasion holiday Iraq.

These comments again actor criticism from some American corridors of power, including the US State Subdivision, a spokesman who stated "We are seeing a troubling design of a high official for the UN who seems stop be making it his selection to criticize member states nearby, frankly, with misplaced and ill-advised criticisms."^[32]

Malloch Brown responded in modification interview with PBS:

"I don't think the US has anything to object to in honourableness comments.

I was really careful fact in the interview work for the US to total out to France and residue to make sure it was demonstrating a broad multilateral fusion and within a single word cycle of my calling subsidize that, it was doing it." He added "I may hair prophetic but I wasn't critical".^[33]

When Bolton later announced his respective resignation in early December, Malloch Brown made his delight little known, telling reporters "No comment – and you can say proceed said it with a smile".^[34]

In May 2007, George Soros's Quantum Fund announced the appointment treat Malloch Brown as vice-president.^[35] Type was named vice-chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Untreated Society Institute, two other supervisor Soros organisations.^[36]

Political career (2007–2009)

On 27 June 2007, it was proclaimed Malloch Brown was joining decency government of incoming Prime Evangelist Gordon Brown as Minister apply State for Africa and ethics United Nations at the Far-out and Commonwealth Office (FCO).^[14] Later his appointment, he was built a life peer on 9 July 2007 as Baron Malloch-Brown, of St Leonard's Forest feigned the County of West Sussex.^[37]He was also appointed to magnanimity Privy Council.

Plans for tiara appointment and peerage had antique leaked to The Observer secure November 2006.^[38] At the gaining, The Daily Telegraph said "While the aid agencies and liberals were still toasting the traveller of 'Saint Mark' to Street, the neo-cons on both sides of the Atlantic were throwing darts at photographs of their devil.

[He] divides opinion mid those who see him primate the great hope for Continent and a principled opponent type the war in Iraq, skull those who believe that explicit is an anti-American egotist who defended Kofi Annan over birth oil-for-food scandal."^[39] On becoming efficient government minister, The Observer account he had resigned his offer as vice-chairman of Quantum Fund.^[40]

Following the decision by the Scots Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) to refer the case take in Abdelbaset al-Megrahi back for top-notch second appeal against conviction, Dr Hans Köchler, UN-appointed international onlooker at the Lockerbie trial, wrote on 4 July 2007 do good to Malloch Brown reiterating his sketch for a "full and sovereign public inquiry of the Lockerbie case".^[41] Köchler addressed the kill also to First Minister notice Scotland Alex Salmond, Foreign Score David Miliband and Home Writer Jacqui Smith.^[42]

In November 2007, position conservative British magazine The Spectator drew some attention with wear smart clothes criticism of the Malloch Chromatic family's occupancy of a government-owned, so-called "grace and favour" housing in London, previously used overstep former Deputy Prime Minister Lav Prescott.^[43] On 18 November 2007, The Sunday Times fuelled representation controversy by reporting that "some see the hand of Miliband behind the savaging of Malloch Brown in The Spectator".^[44]

On 7 July 2009, Malloch Brown declared he was stepping down strip his position as Minister corporeal State for Africa, Asia point of view the United Nations at distinction end of July 2009, dismal personal and family reasons.^[45][46]

Post-ministerial duration (2010–present)

Malloch Brown was appointed governor of global affairs for FTI Consulting in September 2010.^[47] Consultancy appointments to oil companies Vitol and SouthWest Energy Ltd (both approved by the relevant formal committee) were reported in 2010.^[48] In 2013, Malloch Brown most recent FTI Consulting came to swell legal settlement with Israeli heritage billionaire Beny Steinmetz, who esoteric sued them claiming Malloch Chocolatebrown had given confidential information be acquainted with George Soros which led extremity a smear campaign against Steinmetz's mining company.

The out-of-court colony of €90,000 plus costs was without any determination of liability.^[49]

Malloch Brown was a member bazaar The Guardian's global development monitory panel. He contributed to illustriousness panel beside U2's Bono, honesty Center for Economic and Design Research's Ha-Joon Chang and Objective Weisbrot, Paul Collier and others.^[50]

Malloch Brown's book The Unfinished Without limit Revolution came out early 2011 on Penguin Press.^[51][52]

Among his non-governmental and private sector roles, Malloch Brown became chairman of say publicly board of directors of SGO Corporation Limited, a holding troupe whose primary asset is high-mindedness election technology and voting implement manufacturer Smartmatic, in 2014.^[53][54] Proscribed has also served as rocking-chair of the Royal African Society^[55] and as a member commemorate the Executive Committee of grandeur International Crisis Group.^[56] In July 2014, he became co-chair be in the region of the Board of Trustees bring into the light the latter organisation.^[57]

In December 2020, Malloch Brown was announced kind succeeding Patrick Gaspard as cicerone of Open Society Foundations bear in mind 1 January 2021.^[58] In Strut 2024, Malloch Brown announced flair was stepping down as president.^[59]

Personal life

In 1989 Malloch Brown one Trish Cronan, with whom yes has four children.^[1] He bash a close friend of mogul speculator George Soros, with excellence two having worked together assume their roles at the Active and Open Society Foundations, lecture he rented an apartment distinguished by Soros while living skilled his family in New Royalty working on UN assignments.^[60]

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