Rt Hon Alan Duncan MP became Minister of State for International Development on 13 May 2010.
Born in 1957, the son of an RAF officer, he went to Merchant Taylors’ School and read politics and economics at St John’s College Oxford. Elected President of the Oxford Union in 1979, he went on to win a Kennedy Scholarship at Harvard University following two years as a graduate trainee with Shell International.
He worked as an oil trader and ran his own oil consultancy until being elected as the MP for Rutland and Melton in 1992.
Having spearheaded William Hague’s successful campaign for the Conservative Party leadership in 1997, Alan went on to hold a number of shadow cabinet positions and he has established recognised expertise in energy and the Middle East.
His ministerial responsibilities cover Yemen, Palestine, Bangladesh, Nepal, Burma, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, along with the UK’s Overseas Territories and, its development relations with the UN, EU, IMF and the World Bank.
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Alan Duncan. Picture: DFID