Hello and welcome to a special philanthropy episode of Slate Money, your guide to the

Business and Finance News of week, but it is the giving

season this week. So I, Felixaman Evaxios, along with Emily Peck, Evaxios, and Elizabeth Spires of New York Times and Slate and places like that.

Hello.

Are being joined this week by Rory Stewart.

Welcome Rory.

Thank you for having me.

We are going to talk about Give Directly,

which is a charity you recently ran,

and very many other things about global development but to set us up here can you just introduce

yourself because you have a

Incredible biography who who are so my name is Rory Stewart and I am a number of things I have

been as you say recently the president and I'm now the senior advisor of

Give Directly I also teach at Yale University. I co-host

the UK's leading podcast, which is called The Rest as Politics. I was the UK's Secretary of State

for International Development and before that a minister,

a number of government departments. I ran to be Prime Minister against Boris Johnson

and was defeated. Before that I lived in Afghanistan in Iraq, ran a nonprofit I worked for the British Foreign Service

and I taught at Harvard University and you've managed to do that all by the age of 30

it's quite astonishing. 15 years old. We're going to talk about the difference

between how governments do

obviously talk about unconditional cash transfers.

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