John Bew (historian)

The Honourable
John Bew
Born
Belfast, Northern Ireland
NationalityBritish
Alma materPembroke College, Cambridge (BA, MPhil, PhD)
EmployerKing's College London
Parents

John Bew is Professor in History and Foreign Policy at King's College London[1] and from 2013 to 2014 held the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the John W. Kluge Center.[2]

In 2019, Bew joined the Number 10 Policy Unit under Prime Minister Boris Johnson,[3] continuing to serve as foreign policy advisor under successive Prime Ministers Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. In 2023, the New Statesman described Bew as "the great survivor of Downing Street", and one of the most powerful figures in right-wing British politics.[4] He was dismissed with the formation of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government in July 2024.[5]

  1. ^ "Professor John Bew". King's College London. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  2. ^ "John Bew". John W. Kluge Center. Library of Congress.
  3. ^ "Bagehot - The Downing Street Policy Unit, Boris Johnson's brain | Britain". The Economist. 22 August 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  4. ^ Statesman, New (27 September 2023). "The New Statesman's right power list". New Statesman. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  5. ^ Donaldson, Kitty (9 July 2024). "Sue Gray axes Sunak's US ambassador choice, with Mandelson or Miliband in frame". i. Retrieved 9 July 2024.