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Lord Mark Malloch-Brown to Join Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company, Board of Directors
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nLord Mark Malloch-Brown to Join Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company, Board of Directors\n\nLord Mark Malloch-Brown to Join Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company, Board of Directors\nLONDON, 12 December 2011, Thomson Reuters Corp. (TSX/NYSE: TRI) \nThomson Reuters Founders Share Company today announced that it has appointed Lord Malloch-Brown, Chairman of Europe, Middle East & Africa, FTI Consulting Inc. to join its Board. \nPreviously, Lord Malloch-Brown served as Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the British government with responsibility for Africa, Asia and the United Nations.  He has also served as United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, Vice President of External Affairs at the World Bank and founded the Economist Development Report.  Additionally, Lord Malloch-Brown worked as a journalist at the Economist and as a political consultant.  He holds a first class honours degree in history from Magdalene College, Cambridge and a master's degree in political science from the University of Michigan. \nLord Malloch-Brown was knighted for his international service and made a Life Peer and Privy Counsellor when he joined the UK Cabinet in 2007. He remains a member of the House of Lords.  \nHe is Chair of the Royal Africa Society, Trustee of the Shell Foundation and a member of the Boards of the International Crisis Group, the Open Society Foundation, Save the Children International, the Centre for Global Development and the Children's Investment Fund Foundation.\nThe Directors of the Founders Share Company act as Trustees of the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles (the \"Principles\").  These are applied to the entire Thomson Reuters business and govern the way in which Thomson Reuters carries out business throughout the world.\n\"Lord Malloch-Brown is most welcome as a Director and Trustee.  He has a wealth of international experience, not least in prominent positions in the United Nations and in world-class NGOs.  His background as a journalist is an element that is appreciated in a company such as ours.\" said Pehr Gyllenhammar, chairman of the Founders Share Company's Board.\n\"A free press is as important a guarantee of an open society as any. As media freedom faces n...