Roderick James Nugent Stewart (born 3 January 1973), known as Rory Stewart, is a British diplomat, author, explorer, soldier, academic and politician, who is a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs where he teaches politics and international relations. Prior to this appointment, he was the Secretary of State for International Development for the United Kingdom. He began his government career, with a Short-Service Limited Commission in the British Army, and then became a diplomat, serving in Indonesia, as the British Representative to Montenegro, and in Iraq, as Deputy Governorate Coordinator in Maysan and Dhi Qar, before establishing the Turquoise Mountain Foundation in Afghanistan, and becoming a Harvard Professor as the Ryan Professor of Human Rights, and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School.