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FT Business - LSE European Institute The Future of Europe lecture series, in association with LSE IDEAS and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Date: Wednesday 4 March 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Lord Malloch Brown
Chair: Howard Davies
Update: Tuesday 3 March, due to unforeseen circumstances this event has been cancelled. LSE apologises for any inconvenience caused.
Can the European Union be an effective agent for reform of the world's financial institutions and security architecture? And what kind of global governance should the EU be pressing for?
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 to 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 roles of vice chairman of Soros Fund Management and of the Open Society Institute.
He received a First Class Honours Degree in History from Magdalene College, Cambridge University, and a Master's Degree in Political Science from the University of Michigan, and is the recipient of a number of honorary degrees and awards. At the end of 2006, he became a distinguished fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation at Yale University. Aged 54, he is married with four children.
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