Alan Duncan

Sir Alan Duncan KCMG (* 31 March 1957 ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party .

Life

Duncan was born in 1957 in Rickmannsworth , Hertfordshire . His father served in the Royal Air Force and his mother was a teacher. The family moved many times due to Duncan's father's job at NATO , including Gibraltar , Italy and Norway . After leaving school, Duncan studied at St John's College and Harvard University in Oxford . Duncan then worked in the oil industry at Royal Dutch Shell from 1979 to 1981 , and in 1982 moved to the commodities trader Marc Rich , for whom he worked until 1988. In the British general election in 1992 , Duncan was first elected as a Member of Parliament for the constituency of Rutland and Melton in the British House of Commons . In the following general election, Duncan was re-elected as a member of parliament.

Duncan has been a member of conservative shadow cabinets in various functions since 1998 . After the conservative election victory in May 2010 , he was appointed by the newly elected Prime Minister David Cameron as Secretary of State in the Ministry of International Development; In the course of a cabinet reshuffle, he was dismissed from this office in July 2014. From July 2016, he was again State Secretary under Prime Minister Theresa May , this time in the Foreign Ministry and with responsibility for Europe and America. In anticipation of Boris Johnson's move to the post of prime minister two days later , Duncan resigned on July 22, 2019.

In 2002, Duncan had his public coming out in politics. He lives with his partner James Dunseath, whom he married on July 24, 2008.

Publications

Duncan has written two books as an author:

An End To Illusions (Demos, 1993) ISBN 1-898309-05-1
Saturn's Children: How the State Devours Liberty, Prosperity and Virtue (in collaboration with Dominic Hobson ), Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995, ISBN 1-85619-605-4

Individual evidence

↑ British Foreign Secretary Duncan resigns. Der Tagesspiegel , July 22, 2019, accessed on the same day.
^ Telegraph: Alan Duncan becomes first Tory MP to seal civil partnership

Web links

Commons : Alan Duncan - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of Alan Duncan
Alan Duncan on the UK Parliament website
Alan Duncan on the UK Government website
BBC: Alan Duncan

personal data
SURNAME	Duncan, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH	March 31, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rickmannsworth , Hertfordshire

[1] British Foreign Secretary Duncan resigns. Der Tagesspiegel , July 22, 2019, accessed on the same day.

[2] Telegraph: Alan Duncan becomes first Tory MP to seal civil partnership