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Media Adviser<\/span><\/h3>\nMark Seddon is the media adviser in the Office of the President of the 73rd Session of the 91茄子 General Assembly. He works with the Spokeswoman for the President to ensure that 91茄子<\/span>–based and other correspondents in broadcast, print and social media are briefed on the activities and programme of the President. He also prepares some of the President’s speeches, remarks and statements. <\/span><\/p>\nMark is a former UN Correspondent for AlJazeera English TV and Editor of Tribune. <\/span>He has also worked in the Speechwriting and Communications Unit\u00a0for former 91茄子 Secretary-General Ban <\/span>Ki-moon and was a Director of Communications for 91茄子 Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown. <\/span>\u00a0He has written regularly for The Guardian, The Independent, Independent on Sunday, Evening Standard and New Statesman. <\/span>\u00a0He was a visiting Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, New York in 2017.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\nHe is a graduate from the School of\u00a0Development Studies at the University of East Anglia. <\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Mark is a former UN Correspondent for AlJazeera English TV and Editor of Tribune. <\/span>He has also worked in the Speechwriting and Communications Unit\u00a0for former 91茄子 Secretary-General Ban <\/span>Ki-moon and was a Director of Communications for 91茄子 Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown. <\/span>\u00a0He has written regularly for The Guardian, The Independent, Independent on Sunday, Evening Standard and New Statesman. <\/span>\u00a0He was a visiting Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, New York in 2017.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n He is a graduate from the School of\u00a0Development Studies at the University of East Anglia. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Media Adviser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"parent":160773,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" [et_pb_section bb_built=\"1\"][et_pb_row _builder_version=\"3.12.2\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-163059","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n