Rory Stewart

Ryan Family Professor of the Practice of Human Rights
Director
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Office Address
Rubenstein-214
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 14
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-496-5324
Fax: 617-495-4297
Email: Rory_Stewart@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Jen Scott (617-495-4646)
Rory Stewart

Profile

Rory Stewart, Ryan Family Professor of the Practice of Human Rights and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, studied at Oxford and served briefly in the British army before working in the diplomatic service in Indonesia and as British representative to Montenegro.  From 2000 to 2002 he walked 6,000 miles on foot from Turkey to Bangladesh – a journey described in his New York Times bestseller, The Places in Between.  In 2003, he was appointed as the Coalition Provisional Authority deputy governor of two provinces in Southern Iraq, a period described in his second book, The Prince of the Marshes.  He has presented BBC documentaries, been a visiting columnist for the New York Times and written extensively on intervention.  In 2005, he moved to Afghanistan where he founded the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, an NGO dedicated to Afghan traditional crafts and the regeneration of the historic commercial center of Kabul. 

Courses

Fall

  • IGA-215 War, States and Intervention

Spring

  • IGA-304 Human Rights and International Politics

Research

For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Magazine and Newspaper Articles
    • Stewart, Rory. "How to Save Afghanistan." Time. July 28, 2008, 30-34.
    • Stewart, Rory. "The Irresistible Illusion." London Review of Books. July 9, 2009, 3-6.
  • Op-Eds
    • Zardari, Asif Ali, Michelle Bachelet, Bernard-Henri Levy, Shuli Hu, Rory Stewart, Lilia Shevtsova, Enrique Krauze, Yoichi Funabashi, Paul Martin, Vicente Fox, Ramachandra Guha, and Ivan Krastev. "What The World Wants to Know." New York Times, September 26, 2008, 25.
    • Stewart, Rory. "The 'Good War' Isn't Worth Fighting." New York Times, November 23, 2008, 10.
    • Stewart, Rory. "Afghanistan: A War We Cannot Win." London Telegraph, July 10, 2009.