Obstacles and opportunities to make aid agencies more effective | Rory Stewart | EAG London: 2024

Want to know why aid orgs aren't bigger fans of GiveWell and GiveDirectly type interventions? Having run the Department for International Development (DFID) ($20b/yr budget), Rory shares what the priorities of aid orgs like and what he would like them to be. Rory speaks to how we connect the pipes between EA ideas/evidence and bureaucrats.
Rory Stewart was an MP (Member of Parliament) in the British Government between 2010 and 2019. He's a senior advisor for GiveDirectly and the host of the Rest Is Politics podcast. Rory's bestselling memoir "Politics On The Edge" was published in 2023, and Rory is currently the Brady-Johnson Professor of the Practice of Grand Strategy at Yale's Jackson School of Global Affairs.
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