Secretary-General Kofi Annans Chef de Cabinet (chief of staff), Mark Malloch Brown, who has played a key role in UN reform and development efforts, was Friday named Deputy Secretary-General as of 1 April, when Louise Fréchette steps down.
Mr. Annan decided on the appointment “to ensure that his Executive Office and the UN Secretariat is able to carry out the full agenda remaining in his term (ending on 31 December)”.
Mr. Malloch Brown was Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) from 1999 until being named Chef de Cabinet in January, 2005 (han slog dav. udviklingsminister Poul Nielson i kampen om at blive UNDP-chef i 1999, red.).
As chef de cabinet Mr. Malloch Brown has worked closely with the Mr. Annan and Ms. Fréchette on all aspects of UN work, including helping to set out an ambitious reform agenda.
While UNDP head, he also led UN efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of targets set by the UN Millennium Summit in 2000 which seek to slash a host of socio-economic ills such as extreme poverty and hunger, maternal and infant mortality and lack of access to education and health care, all by 2015.
Prior to his appointment with UNDP, Mr. Malloch Brown, a British national, spent five years at the World Bank, including as Vice-President for External Affairs and Vice-President for United Nations Affairs.
From 1979 to 1983 he worked for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and was stationed in Thailand where he was in charge of field operations for Cambodian refugees.
From 1986 to 1994, he was the lead international partner in a strategic communications management firm, the Sawyer-Miller Group, where he worked with corporations and governments.
He has served as the political correspondent of the Economist magazine and was the founding editor of the monthly Economist Development Report.
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