 | Mark Malloch Brown |
Mark Malloch Brown, former deputy secretary-general of the United Nations (U.N.), will join the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization this spring as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow.
The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization awards fellowships to distinguished individuals who influence policy making and generate ideas for seizing globalization's opportunities and overcoming its challenges.
While at Yale, in addition to interacting with faculty and students, Malloch Brown plans to concentrate on writing a book that will focus on changing leadership in a globalized world where old models of organization no longer prevail.
Malloch Brown served as U.N. deputy secretary-general from April 2006 until stepping down at the end of December. During his tenure there, he worked with Secretary-General Kofi Annan across the full array of the U.N.'s global functions -- from managerial issues to crisis management, political matters and the overall policy and institutional agenda of the organization.
Malloch Brown previously served as chef de cabinet to Annan, working closely with the secretary-general on, among other projects, helping to set out and implement an ambitious management reform program for the U.N. that was presented to world leaders at the World Summit in New York in in September 2005. He also led the U.N.'s response to the oil-for-food scandal.
Prior to becoming chef de cabinet, Malloch Brown served as administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the U.N's global development organization. There he oversaw a comprehensive change in the management process that was widely recognized as making the UNDP more focused, efficient and effective across the 166 countries where it works and doubled its annual resources to over $4 billion. His efforts included a major push to expand U.N. support to developing countries in areas such as democratic governance; a new advocacy dimension reflected in pioneering publications, including the Arab Human Development Reports; and strengthened UNDP operational leadership in natural disasters and post-conflict situations. By 2005 the UNDP was ranked in a number of independent donor surveys as the best performing international development agency.
During that time, Malloch Brown was also the chair of the U.N. Development Group, a committee consisting of the heads of all U.N. funds, programs and departments working on development issues. At the request of Annan, Malloch Brown also led the U.N. system's efforts to help support the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals -- eight time-bound development targets with the overarching goal of halving extreme poverty by 2015 -- which were approved by world leaders at the U.N. Millennium Summit of September 2000.
Prior to joining the U.N., Malloch Brown served at the World Bank as vice president for external affairs and vice president for U.N. affairs. He is credited with having helped the World Bank enhance its outreach and expand its partnership with the U.N. and non-governmental organizations. In 1997, he chaired the U.N. secretary-general's task force on the reform of U.N. communications.
Malloch Brown also previously worked for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). From 1979 to 1981, he was stationed in Thailand, where he was in charge of field operations for Cambodian refugees. He was appointed deputy chief of UNHCR's Emergency Unit in Geneva, undertaking extensive missions in the Horn of Africa and Central America. In 1981, the UNHCR and its staff were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Active in human rights and refugee issues, he is former vice chair of the board of Refugees International in Washington, D.C., and has served on the advisory boards of a number of non-profit organizations. Malloch Brown was included in Time Magazine's list of the "World's 100 Most Influential People" in 2005.
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