Alistair Burt

Read Law at St John’s Oxford.

Member of Parliament for Bury North in 1983-1997.

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Social Security 1992–1995, Minister of State, Minister for Disabled People, 1995–1997, Minister for Manchester and Salford 1994-1997.

Member of Parliament for North East Bedfordshire in 2001-2019. In 2010–2013, he is Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the Middle East, North Africa, North America and South Asia.

Minister of State for Community and Primary Care 2015–2016 Minister of State FCO/DFID for MENA 2017–2019.

Alistair Burt is a member of Her Majesty’s Privy Council since 2013.

He is the UK Commissioner to the International Commission on Missing Persons, based in The Hague, since 2013.

He currently works with Middle Eastern conflict resolution group Forward Thinking, and other interests.

He is on the Council of the European Council of Foreign Relations, a Distinguished Fellow of RUSI and is the Pro-Chancellor of Lancaster University.