| LC control no. | no2004075978 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Stewart, Rory |
| Variant(s) | Stewart, Roderick James Nugent |
| See also | Chief executive of: Great Britain. Department for International Development Chief executive of: Great Britain. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Chief executive of: Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Chief executive of: Turquoise Mountain Foundation (Kabul, Afghanistan) Employer: Harvard University |
| Associated country | Great Britain England |
| Associated place | London (England) Iraq Afghanistan Cambridge (Mass.) Penrith and the Border (England : Electoral constituency) |
| Located | Dufton (England) |
| Birth date | 1973-01-03 |
| Place of birth | Hong Kong |
| Field of activity | Political science Diplomatic and consular service Great Britain--Politics and government International relations Voyages and travels Walking Travel writing Human rights |
| Affiliation | Great Britain. Department for International Development Great Britain. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Conservative Party (Great Britain) Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Turquoise Mountain Foundation (Kabul, Afghanistan) Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Order of the British Empire |
| Profession or occupation | Politicians Diplomats Cabinet officers Legislators Travel writers College teachers |
| Found in | Stewart, Rory. The places in between, 2004: t.p. (Rory Stewart) jkt. (born in Hong Kong, grew up in Malaysia; joined British Foreign Office and is currently senior British representative in Maysan, Iraq; walked 6,000 miles across Asia beginning 2000) Stewart, Rory. The Marches, 2016: title page (Rory Stewart; a borderland journey between England and Scotland) jacket (was the deputy governor of two provinces in Iraq; was director of the Carr Center of Human Rights Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; awarded the Order of the British Empire for his work in Iraq; member of Parliament, formerly minister for the environment; currently serves as minister of state for international development; he lives in Cumbria, United Kingdom) Rory Stewart Web site, 31 May 2017: main page (Rory Stewart; Rory Stewart MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA) About Rory (Rory Stewart OBE; MP for Penrith and The Border, England, from 2010; he is Minister of State at the Department for International Development (DFID), having previously been Minister for the Environment and Rural Affairs at DEFRA (appointed 2015); his previous career was in foreign affairs, particularly focused on military intervention and international development; UK Diplomatic Service: served overseas in Jakarta, as British representative to Montenegro in the wake of the Kosovo crisis, and as the coalition Deputy-Governor of two provinces in the Marsh Arab region of Southern Iraq following the Iraq intervention of 2003; 2005-2008, the Chair and Chief Executive of the Turquoise Mountain Foundation based in Kabul; in 2008, appointed as the Ryan Family Professor of the Practice of Human Rights and Director of the Carr Centre of Human Rights at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government; has written 4 books (on his walk across Afghanistan, his time as deputy governor, a walk through Cumbria and the Borders with his father, and military intervention) and over 70 articles on Parliament and UK politics; has presented 3 BBC television documentaries; educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford; was a Fellow at Harvard 2004-2005) <http://www.rorystewart.co.uk/> Wikipedia, 31 May 2017 (Roderick James Nugent "Rory" Stewart, OBE FRSL (born 3 January 1973) is a British diplomat, politician, and author; member of the Conservative Party; promoted to Minister of State for International Development on 17 July 2016; became fellow at Carr Center for Human Rights Policy late 2004; left his Harvard position in March 2010; first returned as the MP for the Penrith and the Border constituency on 6 May 2010; member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, 2010-2014; appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2004; lives at Dufton in Cumbria) |
| Associated language | eng |
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