Edward Mortimer CMG (22 December 1943 – 18 June 2021)[1] was a UN civil servant, journalist, author and academic.

[2] From 2001 to 2006, he was the Director of Communications in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and was the chief speechwriter from 1998 to 2006.

[9] Before university Mortimer went to Senegal to do Voluntary Service Overseas, and taught English for a short period in a lycée in St Louis.

During his time in Paris he documented the student riots and the last days of Charles de Gaulle's presidency.

[3][2] Between 2007 and 2012 he was Senior Vice President of the Salzburg Global Seminar and was a member of the Advisory Council of Independent Diplomat.