Rory Stewart

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Roderick James Nugent "Rory" Stewart (born 3 January 1973) is a British academic, broadcaster, writer, and former diplomat and politician. He is Professor in Practice in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics. He previously taught and co-directed the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. Since 2022, Stewart has co-hosted the podcast The Rest Is Politics with Alastair Campbell. Stewart served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Penrith and The Border from 2010 until 2019, and held several ministerial portfolios in the British government between 2015 and 2019. Born in British Hong Kong, Stewart attended the Dragon School and Eton College. After a brief period of military service in the Black Watch, Stewart studied philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) at Balliol College, Oxford. After graduating he joined the Foreign Office, holding diplomatic positions in Indonesia and Montenegro. He left the Foreign Office to undertake a solo walk across Asia, which later became the subject of his best-selling book The Places in Between. Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Stewart was involved in the Coalition Provisional Authority in the Maysan province. He founded and ran the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, an NGO focused on human development in Afghanistan, before becoming a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. He joined the Conservative Party in 2009. Stewart served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Penrith and The Border between 2010 and 2019, representing the Conservative Party. In 2014 he was elected chair of the Defence Select Committee. He served under David Cameron as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Water, Forestry, Rural Affairs and Resource Management from 2015 to 2016. He was a minister throughout Theresa May's government: as Minister of State for International Development, Africa, and Prisons. He joined the Cabinet and National...