The Rt Hon. Rory Stewart, OBE
President of GiveDirectly and Former Secretary of State for International Development
President of GiveDirectly; Visiting Fellow at The Jackson Institute at Yale University.
Formerly: Minister of State, Ministry of Justice (2018-19); Minister of State, at the Department for International Development and Foreign and Commonwealth Office (2017-18); Environment Minister (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) (2015-16); Member of Parliament (Conservative) for Penrith and The Border (2010-); Chair, Defence Select Committee (2014-15); Member, Foreign Affairs Select Committee (2010-14); Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights, Harvard University; Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Founder and CEO, Turquoise Mountain, Kabul (2006-08); Coalition Deputy Governor, Maysan and Dhi Qar Provinces, Iraq (2003); HM Diplomatic Service: postings to Indonesia and Montenegro; British Army.
A Member of the Programme Committee (2010-), and an Honorary Governor (2023-), The Ditchley Foundation.
Honorary Governors
The Ditchley Internship Programme
The Ditchley Internship programme offers over 50 students the opportunity each year to become immersed in the ethos of Ditchley.
Our Home at Ditchley Park
Ditchley Park is part of the world’s heritage and remains as central to our way of working now as it has ever been.
