Mark Malloch-Brown has had a long career in international affairs, development, business, and communications. At the United Nations, Mark Malloch-Brown led the global promotion of the UN Millennium Development Goals as head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP). At the UNDP, and previously as vice president of external affairs at the World Bank, he led reform efforts to increase the impact of both organisations. He later served as Kofi Annan’s chief of staff, and then as UN Deputy Secretary General, before joining the British government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, as minister responsible for Africa and Asia from 2007 to 2009. Most recently, he was president of the Open Society Foundations, the world’s largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic governance, and human rights. Mark Malloch-Brown is a Visiting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics (LSE), he is a Visiting Fellow at UPenn's Perry World House, he was knighted for his contributions to international affairs, and is currently on leave from the British House of Lords.
None dispute that we stand at a precipice in the history of human cooperation. The post-war, post-colonial architecture of international aid is not merely cracking; in many places, it has...
否定的な世論にさらされているのは、政治家、不動産業者、弁護士だけではありません。今日、さまざまなリベラル組織が、人々の信頼を失ったと非難されています。それは、国連やブレトンウッズ体制のような多国間組織から、国家の民主的な組織やフィランソロピー（慈善団体）に至るまで、あらゆる組織に当てはまります。
Politicians, real estate agents and lawyers are no longer alone in the dock of public opinion. Today, a wide range of liberal institutions stand accused of having lost people’s trust. Tha...
Gradually and seamlessly, as a global community, we have dropped the fiction that we live in normal times.
As we approach the second anniversary of the initial COVID-19 outbreak, there is plenty of talk about how the global response, or lack of it, has exposed deep inequities in our world – ab...
