Mark Lowcock

Sir Mark Andrew Lowcock KCB (born 25 July 1962) served as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (the head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) between 2017 and 2021. Prior to his appointment by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on 12 May 2017, Lowcock was the Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development (DFID) from June 2011 to September 2017.

As of April 2025 his main role is as Chair of St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group. He has been elected President of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy with effect from June 2025. He is also a Trustee/Director and vice-chair of The Howard Partnership Trust, a multi-academy trust of schools (including for children with learning disabilities) in Surrey.

From November 2024 to April 2025 he was a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin. He is a visiting professor in practice at the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics. Between 2021 and 2024 he was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC.