International Development
Tony Baldry is a member of the Council of the Overseas Development Institute, is the Vice-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Overseas Development (Apgood), a Trustee of Friends of Africa, which is a UK based charity, and a Trustee of Afghan Action, a UK based charity working in Afghanistan. He was one of eleven MP's to volunteer for the VSO's project PolVol in 2008. He is on the council of governors of Chatham House.
From 2001–2005, Baldry chaired the House of Commons Select Committee on International Development during which time under his chairmanship the Select Committee produced a number of unanimous Reports.
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