Marrack Goulding was educated at St. Paul's School and Magdalen College, Oxford.
He served in the British Diplomatic Service from 1959 to 1985, learning Arabic in Lebanon and subsequently serving in Kuwait, Libya, Egypt, Portugal, the British Mission to the United Nations in New York, and Angola (as Ambassador). He had two five-year spells in London, one of which included a period of secondment to the Central Policy Review Staff in the Cabinet Office. In 1986 he succeeded Sir Brian Urquhart in the United Nations Secretariat as head of Peacekeeping. During his seven years in that job, peacekeeping grew from five operations with some 10,000 personnel and an annual budget of $242 million to 13 operations with 55,000 personnel and a budget of $2.7 billion. These included major operations in Namibia, Cambodia, Angola, Mozambique, El Salvador and the former Yugoslavia. In 1993, he became Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs in charge of the United Nations' preventive and peacemaking efforts worldwide. In 1997 he retired from the United Nations and became Warden of St. Antony's College, a small graduate school at Oxford University which specializes in international studies.

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