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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from to

For other people named Gordon Brown, see Gordon Brown (disambiguation).

James Gordon Brown (born 20 February ) is a British politician who has been the UNSpecial Envoyon Global Education since and the WHO Ambassador for Global Health Financing since Brown previously served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from to , as well as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Tony Blair from to He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunfermline East from to , and Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath from to

A doctoral graduate, Brown studied history at the University of Edinburgh. He spent his early career as a lecturer at a further education college and television journalist. Brown was elected to the House of Commons at the general election as the MP for Dunfermline East. He was appointed to Neil Kinnock's shadow cabinet in and was appointed Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer by John Smith in Following Labo

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Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown is the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Since September , he also serves as WHO Ambassador for Global Health Financing. 

He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from to and is widely credited with preventing a second Great Depression through his stewardship of the London G20 summit. He was one of the first leaders during the global crisis to initiate calls for global financial action, while introducing a range of rescue measures in the UK. In April , he hosted the G20 Summit in London where world leaders committed to make an additional $ trillion available to help the world economy through the crisis and restore credit, growth and jobs. They also pledged to strengthen financial supervision and regulation.

Previously, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from to , making him the longest-serving Chancellor in modern history. During ten years at the Treasury, Gordon

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Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown, the current Chancellor of the Exchequer was born in Glasgow on February 20th His father was a Church of Scotland Minister in the small Fife town of Kirkcaldy where Brown was educated. He took his O-levels when he was only 14 and his Highers the following year. By the time he was 20 he had a first class degree in History from Edinburgh University, where he went on to complete a PhD. Before becoming an MP he worked as a politics lecturer and as a journalist on Scottish television.

His interest in politics began at an early age. His father was a Labour voter and took him to see the misery caused by the flooding of Kirkcaldy in the s when the sea wall broke. When Gordon Brown was 12, he offered to canvass for the Labour party in a by-election at Kinross and Perth. He joined the Labour Party at 18 and went on to become Chairman of the Labour Club at Edinburgh University.

In Brown entered Parliament for the first time as MP for Dunfermline East, h