Background
He was born on 29 August 1948, the son of George and Jean Wallis.
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Stewart Wallis
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He took the tripos in Natural Sciences at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and, in 1976, obtained a Master of Science in Business and Economics from the London Business School.
Career
He worked for Oxfam from 1992 to 2002, for which he was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Since 2003, he has been Executive Director of the New Economics Foundation. His business career began in marketing and sales with Rio Tinto Zinc from 1970 to 1974. He spent 1976 to 1983 with the World Bank in Washington, District of Columbia working on industrial and financial development in East Asia.
He then worked for Robinson Packaging in Derbyshire from 1983 to 1992, the last five as Managing Director.
He joined Oxfam in 1992 as International Director with responsibility, latterly, for 2500 staff in seventy countries and for all Oxfam’s policy, research, development and emergency work worldwide. He was awarded the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to Oxfam in June 2002.
Stewart joined the New Economics Foundation as Executive Director on 1 November 2003. He is a Trustee of the Overseas Development Institute and Habitat for Humanity.
