The Right Honourable Alistair Burt is a Global Partners Governance Associate. Alistair Burt was MP for Bury North between 1983-97, and for North East Bedfordshire from 2001 -2019. Following a lengthy and varied career as a party spokesman and Minister in both Government and Opposition, he served as a Deputy Minister at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from May 2010 to October 2013, and again from 2017-2019 there and at the Dept for International Development with responsibility for the Middle East and North Africa.