Mark Seddon

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Mark Anthony Paul Seddon (born 7 October 1962) is the Director of the Centre for United Nations Studies at the

Seddon has written for The New York Times and The Boston Globe. He has been a diarist for the London Evening Standard and has contributed to newspapers such as The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, the Daily Mail, and The National (Abu Dhabi), as well as New Statesman, Private Eye, The Oldie, Country Life, and the website Big Think (New York). Also a prolific writer for Tribune, he served as that magazine's editor from 1993 until 2004.

On television, Seddon has reported for the

From 2014 to 2016, Seddon worked in the Communications and Speechwriting Unit for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon. He subsequently became Director of Communications for the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity, chaired by UN Special Envoy for Global Education and former UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. In September 2017 he became an Adjunct Professor in International Relations at Columbia University, New York, in the Harriman Institute.^[2] He returned to New York in August 2018, to work as Media Adviser to the President of the UN General Assembly, 73rd Session at UN Headquarters.

Political career

Active in the

After leaving the Labour Party NEC in 2005, he became the United Nations and New York City correspondent for Al Jazeera English,^[1] before returning to the UK to continue as Al Jazeera English TV's Diplomatic Correspondent. In 2011 he became the media advisor and

Seddon has campaigned for justice for the Chagossians of the British Indian Ocean Territory for 30 years. He was active in the campaign for new elections in the Maldives, following the toppling of that country's first democratic President, Mohamed Nasheed in a coup in 2012. Nasheed was an old school friend, and Seddon had backed his long campaign for democracy in the Maldives.

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