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Rory Stewart is a British academic, writer, broadcaster and former diplomat and minister who co-hosts the podcast The Rest Is Politics with Alastair Campbell, launched in 2022. Born in Hong Kong, he served briefly in the Black Watch and read PPE at Balliol College, Oxford, before joining the Foreign Office with postings in Indonesia and Montenegro. He left to walk across Asia, ending with a 36-day solo crossing of Afghanistan in 2002, a journey told in The Places in Between, which won the Ondaatje Prize in 2005. After the 2003 invasion of Iraq he worked for the coalition authority in Maysan province, recounted in The Prince of the Marshes, and he then founded and ran the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, a development charity working in Afghanistan, and received the Livingstone Medal in 2009. Stewart was MP for Penrith and The Border from 2010 to 2019, serving as prisons minister, Africa minister and Secretary of State for International Development. He now teaches at the London School of Economics. He was made an OBE in 2004 and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature,
- Born in British Hong Kong
- Honors: British honours (OBE/MBE)
- Category: Speaker
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To End Extreme Poverty, Give Cash — Not Advice | Rory Stewart | TED · TED Watch on YouTube
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Milestones
- Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire
- Published The Places in Between
- Received the Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- Received the Ondaatje Prize
- Published The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
- Received the Livingstone Medal
- Became Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Africa
- Received the Ness Award
- Became Minister of State for Prisons and Probation
- Became Secretary of State for International Development
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