Top diplomat Mark Malloch Brown will speak this October at a Globalisation Institute fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference.

The session will be chaired by Andrew Mitchell MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development.

The Purbeck Lounge of the Bournemouth International Centre itself will be the venue, on Wednesday 4 October at 12:30pm, just before David Cameron’s conference speech in the afternoon.

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Mr Malloch Brown has served as Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations since April, 2006. Before his current appointment, he was the Secretary-General’s Chef de Cabinet since January 2005. In that position, he worked closely with the Secretary-General and the Deputy-Secretary General on all aspects of UN work, including helping to set out a reform agenda for the United Nations, much of which was endorsed by world leaders at the World Summit in New York last September.

Prior to becoming Chef de Cabinet, Mr Malloch Brown served as Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN's global development network, from July 1999 to August 2005. During that time, he was also the Chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee consisting of the heads of all UN funds, programmes and departments working on development issues.