Biographie de George Walden
GEORGE WALDEN was educated at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, Jesus College, Cambridge, and spent periods at Moscow, Hong Kong and Harvard universities, and at the École Nationale d'Administration in Paris. From 1962 to 1983 he worked for the British Foreign Office. From 1983 to 1997 he was Conservative MP for Buckingham, and from 1985 to 1987 Minister for Higher Education. His previous books include Morality and Foreign Policy (1990) and We Should Know Better (1996). His memoirs, Lucky George, were published to acclaim and controversy in 1999. In 1997 Walden gave up his seat and left the Conservative Party and politics in order to write.