• Moazzam Moazzam Malik

    Moazzam Malik is Director for UN, Conflict and Humanitarian issues in the UK Department for International Development (DFID). He leads Governments in the efforts to reform the UN development and humanitarian system, to ensure rapid delivery of UK humanitarian assistance and work to reduce the impact of conflict and insecurity on poor people in developing countries. Moazzam oversees a division comprising three departments, 130 staff and a budget of £400m.

    Before taking up the Director role, Moazzam was Head of DFID's Conflict, Humanitarian and Security Department. Before that, Moazzam led work on the 2006 White Paper on international development ‘Making Governance Work for the Poor'. Between 2003 and 2005, Moazzam was Principal Private Secretary to first Baroness Amos and then the Right Hon Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for International Development. As Principal Private Secretary, Moazzam worked with Ministers and colleagues across Government on a wide range of issues including the UK's development assistance in Africa and South Asia; migration and trade policy; reform of the UN and other international institutions; and the G8 Summit at Gleneagles. Earlier in his DFID career, Moazzam managed DFID's programmes in Pakistan, Iraq and on trade policy.

    Moazzam sits on the Advisory Board to the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict and the UN Secretary General's Advisory Group on the Central Emergency Revolving Fund.

    Outside Government, Moazzam has worked as a consultant economist advising large UK corporate clients and the World Bank amongst others; a researcher at the London School of Economics and the Overseas Development Institute; an adviser on monetary and foreign exchange policy in the Central Bank of Uganda; an economist in a Pakistani development bank; and run a production engineering business and an urban regeneration NGO based in London.

    Moazzam is married with three children and lives in North West London, just a mile and half from where he grew up. Like a lot of British Asian men, Moazzam is passionate about cricket. He follows the Pakistani cricket team's highs and (many) lows - a pride that he is passing on to his children. He enjoys cooking and eating Asian foods, music, cinema and theatre, walking around London, holidaying in Scotland, and spending time with his family and friends.

    Moazzam studied at a local comprehensive school in North West London and has a BSc Honours in Economics from the London School of Economics and a MSc in Development Economics from Oxford University.