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Roderick 'Rory' James Nugent Stewart OBE FRSL MP is a British academic, author, and Conservative politician. Since May 2010, he has been the Member of Parliament for Penrith and The Border, in the county of Cumbria, North West England.
Stewart was a senior coalition official in a province of occupied Iraq in 2003–2004. He is known for his book about this experience, The Prince of the Marshes and for his 2002 walk across Afghanistan, which served as the basis for another book, The Places in Between, as well as his later cultural development work in Afghanistan as the Executive Chairman of the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, a British charity.
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