Rory Stewart

Professor, former Member of Parliament, UK

Why you should listen

Once a British politician, infantry officer and diplomat, Rory Stewart is a Yale professor, senior advisor to GiveDirectly and cohost of one of the UK’s most popular podcasts, The Rest Is Politics. Following a two-year walk through the Middle East and South Asia, he founded the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, a nonprofit aimed at restoring a section of the old city of Kabul, Afghanistan. He also served as director of Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. He has written five books including, most recently, Politics on the Edge: A Memoir from Within.

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5 talks on the state of democracy

October 29, 2012

[ted id=1595 width=560 height=315] Rory Stewart opens this talk from TEDxHousesofParliament with a joke: “Little Billy goes to school and his teacher asks, ‘What does your father do?’ Billy replies, ‘My father plays piano in an opium den.’” But when the teacher confronts the father about his occupation, she gets a different answer. As Stewart finishes […]

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