Sir Mark Malloch Brown, British foreign office minister and former deputy secretary general of the United Nations, will discuss “Making Private Capital Work for the Poor” on Oct.1 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The free public talk at 7.30 p.m. in Memorial Hall will be the 2007-2008 Frank Porter Graham Lecture at UNC. The annual lecture brings a variety of viewpoints on poverty to campus.
A member of the British cabinet, Malloch Brown works with nations in Africa and Asia. He also advises Prime Minister Gordon Brown about human rights and other global issues. He was knighted earlier this year.
While at the U.N., Malloch Brown championed the Millennium Development Project, a global movement to eradicate world poverty by 2015. The project aims to address income inequality, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter and other problems while promoting gender equality, education and environmental sustainability.
“Mark Malloch Brown is one of the most creative and effective international policy reform leaders in the world today,” said Richard “Pete” Andrews, Ph.D., the Thomas Willis Lambeth distinguished professor of public policy at UNC.
In 2005, Time magazine named Malloch Brown one of the world’s 100 most influential people. He also has worked at the World Bank and the U.N. High Commission for Refugees.
The Frank Porter Graham Lecture Series honors the late U.S. senator and president of the University of North Carolina, a champion of freedom, democracy and the disadvantaged. The lecture is made possible by a generous gift to the university by Taylor McMillan of Raleigh, who graduated from UNC in 1960.
Sponsors of this year’s lecture include the following UNC units: the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence and the public policy department, both in the College of Arts and Sciences; the Public Policy Majors Union, a student group; the UNC Center for Global Initiatives; and Carolina Performing Arts.
Also sponsoring the talk are the Duke-UNC Rotary Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution and the Roosevelt Institution of Washington, D.C., a national network of college student think tanks that conduct policy research.
More information and background on Malloch Brown and his topic are available at http://www.johnstoncenter.unc.edu/events/fpg_0708.htm. For more information, contact the Johnston Center at (919) 966-5110.
Johnston Center contact: Maureen Theisen, (919) 843-7758, maureen@unc.edu
College of Arts and Sciences contact: Kim Spurr, (919) 962-4093, spurrk@email.unc.edu