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{{shortShort description|President of Open Society Foundations andsince former British Labour politician and United Nations Deputy Secretary-General2021}}

|caption = Official portrait, {{circa}} 2007–092007

|office = [[Minister of State for Africa, Asia and the United Nations]]<!-- No need to edit the wikilink per [[WP:NOTBROKEN]] -->

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|office4 = [[Member of the House of Lords]]<br />[[Lords Temporal|Lord Temporal]]

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|term_label4term_end4 = [[Life= peer]]age

|birth_place = [[MaryleboneLondon]], [[LondonEngland]], EnglandUK

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|party = None[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] (former)<br>[[CrossbencherCrossbench]])

'''George Mark Malloch Brown, Baron Malloch-Brown'''{{refn|group=nefn|His title is hyphenated but his surname is not.}} {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG|PC}} (born 16 September 1953) is a British diplomat, communications consultant, journalist and former politician who has servedserving as president of [[Open Society Foundations]] since 2021, having previously served as [[Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations]] under [[Kofi Annan]] from April to December 2006. A former member of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]], he wasserved as [[Minister of State for Africa, Asia and the United Nations]]<!--No need to edit the wikilink per [[WP:NOTBROKEN]]--> in the [[Brown government]] from 2007 to 2009.

Malloch Brown joined the government of [[Gordon Brown]] in 2007 at the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] and was elevated to the [[House of Lords]] as a [[life peer]]. After stepping down from the government in 2009 due to family and personal reasons, he was appointed chairman of global affairs for [[FTI Consulting]] a year later. In 2014, he was appointed chairman of the board of directors of election technology manufacturer [[Smartmatic]]'s holding company. InHe December 2020, he was chosen to serveserved as president of [[Open Society Foundations]] starting infrom January 2021 until June 2024.

Malloch Brown was born in September 1953 in [[Marylebone]], tothe only son of an exiled South African diplomat.<ref name="whoswho">{{cite journal |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.59527|title=Malloch-Brown, Baron, ((George) Mark Malloch Brown) (born 16 Sept. 1953)|journal=[[Who's Who (UK)|Who's Who]]|year=2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=svlnGcQUkpi8kocjQCOdSA&scan=1|title=Index entry|access-date=8 June 2018|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=15 September 2008 |title=Lord Malloch-Brown: You Ask The Questions |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/lord-malloch-brown-you-ask-the-questions-930883.html |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |access-date=8 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Hasan |first=Mehdi |author-link=Mehdi Hasan |date=31 March 2011 |title=The NS Interview: Mark Malloch Brown, former UN deputy secretary general |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2011/03/interview-libya-arab-france |newspaper=[[New Statesman]] |access-date=8 June 2018}}</ref><ref>tfstevenson.com, 20 October 2012, [http://tfstevenson.com/2012/10/20/an-interview-with-lord-malloch-brown/ An Interview with Lord Malloch-Brown] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130911231012/http://tfstevenson.com/2012/10/20/an-interview-with-lord-malloch-brown/ |date=11 September 2013 }}</ref> He was educated at [[Marlborough College]],<ref name=BBCprofile/> and earned a [[British undergraduate degree classification|First Class Honours]] Degree in History from [[Magdalene College, Cambridge]] and a master's degree in [[Politicalpolitical Sciencescience]] from the [[University of Michigan]].<ref>BusinessWeek, [https://archive.today/20130616152402/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=34164870&ticker=FCN Mark Malloch-Brown]</ref>

Malloch Brown focused much of his public relations energies on advising politicians in Latin America.<ref name=Yalebio/> He advised [[Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada]]'s [[1989 Bolivian presidential election|1989 presidential campaign]] in Bolivia.<ref name="Barker">Michael Barker, zmag.org, 26 November 2007, {{cite web|url=http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/17277 |title=The United Nations and Polyarchy |access-date=2013-05-24 |url-status = bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828083449/http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/17277 |archive-date=28 August 2008 }}</ref> In [[Peru]], he assisted [[Mario Vargas Llosa]] with his [[1990 Peruvian general election|1990 presidential campaign]], though Vargas Llosa did not heed his advice and lost to [[Alberto Fujimori]] despite having an initial lead in polls.<ref>{{cite news |last=Preston |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Preston |date=9 August 2008 |title=Masters of worldwide spin |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/aug/10/politicalbooks |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=9 March 2017}}</ref> In [[Chile]], Malloch Brown advised the opposition in its successful challenge to former dictator [[Augusto Pinochet]].<ref name="UNbio">United Nations, {{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/stories/dsgbio.asp |title=Mark Malloch Brown |access-date=2013-05-24 |url-status = bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070426123127/http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/stories/dsgbio.asp |archive-date=26 April 2007 }}</ref><ref name="GuardianTran">{{cite news |last=Tran |first=Mark |date=28 June 2007 |title=Profile: Lord Malloch Brown |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/jun/28/politics.labour1 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=8 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Siegel |first=Barry |author-link=Barry Siegel |date=24 November 1991 |title=Spin Doctors To The World : The Sawyer Miller Group Uses The Tricks Of Political Campaigns To Change The Way You Think About Foreign Governments, Big Business And Any Client In Need Of An Image Lift |url=https://articleswww.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-24/magazine/-tm-417_1_sawyer417-millerstory.html |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=8 June 2018}}</ref> In [[Colombia]], he advised the government on how to shed "its image as the political wing of the Medellin cartel"<ref name="GuardianTran" />

In the [[Philippines]], Malloch Brown worked with [[Corazon Aquino]] in the campaign against the communist, [[Ferdinand Marcos]]. Malloch Brown wrote Aquino's victory speech which she recited days before voting results were to be released since her campaign assumed that Marcos claim victory as well.<ref name="MANILA2015">{{cite news|title=Smartmatic chairman: Cory's close-in media adviser|url=http://www.manilatimes.net/smartmatic-chairman-corys-close-in-media-adviser/231878/|access-date=9 March 2017|work=[[The Manila Times]]|date=29 November 2015}}</ref> He stated that an "outstanding accomplishment during the Cory campaign was to produce an exit poll that indicated that she had won".<ref name="IBONsmart">{{cite web|title=Automated Polls: Privatized elections, foreign-controlled democracy (Part 2)|url=http://ibon.org/2016/05/automated-polls-privatized-elections-foreign-controlled-democracy/|website=[[IBON Foundation]]|access-date=6 March 2017}}</ref>

In 1994, Malloch Brown joined the [[World Bank]] as Vice-President for External Affairs, which included responsibility for relations with the United Nations. He used his experience to good effect at the bank, helping to transform its reputation: "under his guidance, the bank blitzed opinion-makers with full-page newspaper advertisements and a television campaign to change perceptions of it as an arrogant institution unwilling to heed outsiders. To his credit, the institution gradually gained a reputation as a 'listening bank', unlike its more aloof sister institution, the [[International Monetary Fund]]."<ref name=GuardianTran/>

On 27 June 2007, it was announced Malloch Brown was joining the government of incoming Prime Minister [[Gordon Brown]] as [[Minister of State for Africa, Asia and the United Nations]]<!--No need to edit the wikilink per [[WP:NOTBROKEN]]--> at the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] (FCO).<ref name=GuardianTran/> Following his appointment, he was created a [[life peer]] on 9 July 2007 as '''Baron Malloch-Brown''''', of St Leonard's Forest in the County of [[West Sussex]].<ref>{{London Gazette| issue = 58391| date = 13 July 2007| page = 10139}}</ref> ''He was also appointed to the [[Privy Council]]. Plans for his appointment and peerage had been leaked to ''[[The Observer]]'' in November 2006.<ref>{{cite news |last=Marre |first=Oliver |date=12 November 2006 |title=Pendennis: Brown's found a new friend ... called Brown |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2006/nov/12/1 |newspaper=[[The Observer]] |access-date=8 June 2018}}</ref> At the time, ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' said "While the aid agencies and liberals were still toasting the arrival of 'Saint Mark' to Whitehall, the neo-cons on both sides of the Atlantic were throwing darts at photographs of their devil. [He] divides opinion between those who see him as the great hope for Africa and a principled opponent of the war in Iraq, and those who believe that he is an anti-American egotist who defended Kofi Annan over the oil-for-food scandal."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sylvester |first1=Rachel |author-link1=Rachel Sylvester |last2=Thomson |first2=Alice |author-link2=Alice Thomson |date=14 July 2007 |title=Mark Malloch Brown: 'Let's not rely just on US' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1557402/Mark-Malloch-Brown-Lets-not-rely-just-on-US.html |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=8 June 2018}}</ref> On becoming a government minister, ''[[The Observer]]'' reported he had resigned his position as vice-chairman of Quantum Fund.<ref>[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/7days/story/0,,2170143,00.html Och, look. A new rich friend for Mr Brown] ''[[The Observer]]'', 16 September 2007</ref>

In December 2020, Malloch Brown was announced as succeeding [[Patrick Gaspard]] as president of Open Society Foundations on 1 January 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Patrick Gaspard to Step Down as Head of Open Society Foundations|url=https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/newsroom/patrick-gaspard-to-step-down-as-head-of-open-society-foundations|access-date=2020-12-18|website=Open Society Foundations|language=en}}</ref> In March 2024, Malloch Brown announced he was stepping down as president.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Binaifer Nowrojee Appointed New President of Open Society Foundations; Mark Malloch-Brown to Step Down |url=https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/newsroom/binaifer-nowrojee-appointed-new-president-of-open-society-foundations-mark-malloch-brown-to-step-down |access-date=2024-07-17 |website=www.opensocietyfoundations.org |language=en}}</ref>

In 1989 Malloch Brown ismarried anTrish onlyCronan, child.with Hewhom he has four children with his wife.<ref name="whoswho" /> He is a close friend of billionaire speculator [[George Soros]], with the two having worked together in their roles at the UN and Open Society Foundations, and he rented an apartment owned by Soros while living with his family in New York working on UN assignments.<ref>{{cite news|date=15 June 2005|title=An Annan Deputy Is a Soros Tenant|newspaper=The New York Sun|url=http://www.nysun.com/article/15593|access-date=13 July 2007}}</ref>

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