Dudley Fishburn

Who is Dudley Fishburn?

John Dudley Fishburn, known as Dudley, was born in New York on June 8, 1946. He has a career as a business man with strong links to the not-for-profit world, particularly universities on both sides of the Atlantic. He is a journalist and Conservative politician, having been Executive Editor of The Economist and Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom for Kensington. Educated at Eton and Harvard College, from which he graduated in American History and Literature, he has an honorary Doctorate from the Open University. He is married to Victoria, daughter of Sir Jack Boles, and they have four children. Alice, the eldest, works as a journalist on the Financial Times; Honor was an assistant at Downing Street, having been David Cameron’s diary secretary. His brother-in-law, Nick Boles, is a Member of Parliament.