Thank you Michelle Nunn and Lois Quam for the inspiring reflections at #GlobalIGS on what it means to lead in a world in flux. And for the chance to reflect on the subtle power of quiet and understated leadership like that of the late, great Kofi Annan!

Thanks to Alicia Kearns MP Foreign Affairs Committee for the thoughtful questions earlier on international relations in the multilateral system. Good on the committee for engaging in this topic of such great potential for positive British leadership. Video here:

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To make war safer, make peace safer.

In my Georgetown University lecture I argued that as conflicts spread and worsen, we must seek solutions far beyond the battlefields in the realms of aid & development, governance, and institutional legitimacy.

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Prof. O’Brien helped codify the idea of “just war.' The task now is to shrink conflict back to an absolute minimum and bolster humanitarian & legal systems around it. I look forward to delivering the O'Brien Lecture on Monday at Georgetown University on this & more shorturl.at/afiS5

Truly honored for the opportunity to lead the IMF for a 2nd term. Grateful for the membership’s continued trust in me. A more challenging global context demands an even more effective IMF. I will continue to devote all my energy to serve our members.
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Prof. O’Brien helped codify the idea of “just war.' The task now is to shrink conflict back to an absolute minimum and bolster humanitarian & legal systems around it. I look forward to delivering the O'Brien Lecture on Monday at Georgetown University on this & more shorturl.at/afiS5

I welcome these proposals to improve the machinery of Britain's role in the world. Will take more than a spanner to fix!

Don't miss the opportunity to hear from Open Society Foundations's Mark Malloch-Brown at the 2024 Global #InclusiveGrowth Summit.

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The UN Security Council’s resolution today, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, release of hostages, and greater access to aid, must be implemented immediately. We look forward to the people of Israel and Palestine getting the justice they are owed and the peace they need.

My respect for an extraordinary run heading UN Humanitarian. I have known Martin Griffiths since first encountering him in 1980 on the Thai-Cambodian border struggling under a UNICEF rice bag. No humanitarian hall of fame would be complete without him.

Senegal's presidential election result is further evidence of the surge of insurgent political energy among young people in West Africa. Demography is upending the old political order across the region.

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Democracy can be fast and far-sighted enough to rise to the challenge of containing climate change in time. Open Society President Mark Malloch-Brown explores this and more in an address to the The Villars Institute Institute Summit. opensocietyfoundations.org/newsroom/clima…

Many thanks The Villars Institute for the invitation to deliver the Distinguished Lecture at #VillarsSummit 2024. An energising gathering embodying the hybridity and heterodoxy I advocated in my speech on democracy and the climate & nature crises, available here:

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#VillarsSummit Day 1!

Drawing on a remarkable career including former Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations (United Nations ) and Administrator of United NationsDP, Mark Malloch-Brown delivered a powerful and inspiring message for the 3rd Villars Institute Distinguished Lecture
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A great pleasure to connect with UN friends and partners in Geneva over the past 24 hours, including Rebeca Grynspan. A reminder that even now the torch still burns bright among my former colleagues when it comes to conflict, inequality, and human rights.

An important point. Historically global crises were usually consequences of scarcity; today’s is principally a crisis of plenty - even if some of its biggest victims have almost nothing.

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A little bit of history King's College, Cambridge last week. With her granddaughter in the audience Kristalina Georgieva reprised Keynes's 'Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren'. Like the original, an indictment of where we're failing & a manifesto for what could be:

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The current system of global finance “needs more than just adjustment—it needs an overhaul”, write the presidents of Ghana, Kenya and Zambia.

“Africa must be at the centre of these reforms, but our criticisms have for too long fallen on deaf ears” econ.st/4caao1l