Director of the Foreign Policy Center and former UK Education Minister (UK)
Stephen Twigg joined the Foreign Policy Centre as Director in August 2005. He was involved with the FPC from its conception in 1998 and since then as a Member of the Board.
After being General Secretary of the Fabian Society in 1996 to 1997, Stephen was elected as a member of the UK parliament for Enfield Southgate in 1997 and re-elected in 2001. Following his re-election, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the House of Commons, the Rt Hon.
Robin Cook MP, and then as a junior minister in the Department for Education and Skills between 2002 and 2005, reaching the post of Minister for Schools and Standards in 2004.
Stephen also contributes weekly to the Aegis Trust in their work against genocide. Stephen graduated with a BA from Oxford in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.