Biographical Note

 

Sir Marrack Goulding

Sir Marrack graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, following which he joined the British Diplomatic Service.  In 1975 he was seconded to the Home Civil Service to serve with the Central Policy Review Staff at the Cabinet Office and led the CPRS team which reviewed Britain's overseas representation, and produced the controversial Berrill Report, a majority of whose recommendations have since been implemented.  His last post before moving to the UN was as British Ambassador to Angola (1983-85). As United Nations Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs (1985-97) he was in charge of a number of UN peace-keeping operations in the Middle East, Africa, southern Europe and Central America.  He worked with Cyrus Vance in 1991-92 in negotiating the first UN plan for peacekeeping in the former Yugoslavia and negotiated the military aspects of the agreement to end the civil war in El Salvador. In June 1997 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Sir Marrack became Warden of St Antony’s in October 1997.

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