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At 43 years old, he became the youngest Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812.\r\n\r\nSince leaving Downing Street, Tony Blair has served as the Quartet Representative to the Middle East. He represents the USA, UN, Russia and the EU, working with the Palestinians to prepare for statehood as part of the international community's effort to secure peace. \r\n\r\nBlair\u2019s wife, Cherie, is a lawyer. Since Tony Blair left office, the couple has bought more than 38 U.K. properties worth nearly $50 million, the Daily Mail reported in 2017.\r\n\r\nThe Tony Blair Faith Foundation promotes respect and understanding between the major religions and makes the case for faith as a force for good in the modern world. The Tony Blair Faith Foundation is a response to these opportunities and challenges pfresented by religion today.\r\n\r\nThe Africa Governance Initiative delivers projects in Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Liberia, advising President Kagame, President Koroma and President Johnson-Sirleaf respectively on policy delivery and attracting investment, with a team of his staff working with  three governments. \r\n\r\nAs the first major head of government to bring climate change to the top of the international political agenda at the 2005 Gleneagles G8 summit, Tony Blair now leads the Breaking the Climate Deadlock initiative, working with world leaders to build consensus on a new comprehensive international climate policy framework. In recognition of his debt to the North East of England, he has launched the Tony Blair Sports Foundation, to increase opportunities for young people to participate in sport.", "website": null, "parent_id": null, "primary_ext": "Person", "updated_at": "2026-01-22T19:26:25Z", "start_date": "1953-05-06", "end_date": null, "aliases": ["His Excellency Anthony Charles Lynton Blair", "Tony Blair"], "types": ["Person", "Elected Representative", "Business Person", "Public Official"], "extensions": {"Person": {"name_last": "Blair", "name_first": "Anthony", "name_middle": "Charles Lynton", "name_prefix": "Mr", "name_suffix": null, "name_nick": "Tony", "birthplace": "Edinburgh, Scotland", "gender_id": 2, "party_id": null, "is_independent": null, "net_worth": null, "name_maiden": null, "nationality": ["United Kingdom"]}, "ElectedRepresentative": {"bioguide_id": null, "govtrack_id": null, "crp_id": null, "pvs_id": null, "watchdog_id": null}, "BusinessPerson": {"sec_cik": null}}, "tags": ["corporate-mapping-project"]}, "links": {"self": "https://littlesis.org/entities/116349-Tony_Blair"}}, {"type": "entities", "id": 392595, "attributes": {"id": 392595, "name": "Tony Blair Institute", "blurb": null, "summary": "The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change is a non-profit organisation set up by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair which proclaims its ambition as being to help make globalisation work for the many, not the few. It claims to help countries, their people and their governments address some of the most difficult challenges in the world today. Bringing together the various organisations Blair set up after leaving office \u2013 The Tony Blair Governance Initiative and the Tony Blair Faith Foundation \u2013 as well as his work on the Middle East Peace Process, establishing a new area of work: Renewing the Centre. Blair\u2019s intention was to expand the activity of these organisations, re-orientating the mission to reflect the overlap between extremism, governance, the Middle East and the policies needed to fight populism in the West.[1]\r\n\r\n\r\nContents\r\n1\tAgenda\r\n2\tPolicy Areas\r\n2.1\tRenewing the Centre Ground\r\n2.2\tCo-existence\r\n2.3\tMiddle East  \r\n2.4\tGovernance\r\n3\tFunding\r\n4\tLegacy Organisations\r\n5\tReferences\r\n6\tExternal links\r\nAgenda\r\nThe organisation is non-party political but is influenced heavily by the ideology and personal style of Tony Blair. Driven by a belief that the only future that works is one that is open-minded and understands that globalisation is driven primarily by people. As such, their focus is not on creating barriers, but on evidence-based solutions to ensure that globalisation works for everyone. \r\n\r\nBlair launched the Institute as a \u201cnew policy platform to refill the wide open space in the middle of politics\u201d aimed at combating a \u201cfrightening authoritarian populism\u201d that he says is undermining the west\u2019s belief in democracy. He has said the organisation will focus on re-energising the centre ground, fighting religious extremism, African governance and Middle East policy.\r\n\r\nIn an interview with The Guardian, the former prime minister said his Institute for Global Change is more than a think tank since it would aim to arm front-rank politicians with strategies and policies to rebuild the centre, and combat populism caused by a cultural and economic revolt against the effects of globalisation. In that interview on 17 March 2017 Blair said:[2]\r\n\r\nLabour\u2019s \"essential duty\" was that the party should be opposed to Brexit at any cost, keeping open an option that allows the British people to think again if they dislike the deal secured (by) Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May.\r\nIt was not his intention to create a movement like the En Marche! vehicle created by Emmanuel Macron in France, but instead to help create a set of policies to address voters\u2019 anxieties caused by globalisation, including stagnating incomes and migration.\r\nPolicy Areas\r\nThe Tony Blair Institute believes that extremism, governance, the Middle East and the fight against populism are all interconnected. For example, they say that countries will not develop where extremism flourishes. Without peace in the Middle East, grievances will continue to fester, and conflict will spill-over to other countries. Those seeking refuge have also been used by populists to whip up anger in the West \u2013 and, crucially, they say that the centre-ground has to deal with these issues and renew a politics of hope and optimism, rejecting fear and pessimism.[1]  \r\n\r\nRenewing the Centre Ground\r\nHeaded by Yascha Mounk, lecturer at Harvard, they work to revitalise the centre ground of politics and equip today\u2019s leaders to combat the rise of false populism. Focussing on the big policy challenges that globalisation presents, they aim to combat populism and revitalise the centre ground through a corpus of new policy thinking.[3]  \r\n\r\nCo-existence\r\nThey work to promote co-existence and counter extremism by tackling the ideology behind violence, not just the violence itself. Focussing on responses to extremism that first seek to understand the underlying ideology then address it by disrupting its spread, reducing its appeal, and building resilience to its messaging.[4]  \r\n\r\nMiddle East  \r\nThey engage with Israeli and Palestinian leaders and key officials, influential regional actors, diplomatic missions and multinational institutions, to inform and guide thinking and decision-making. Developing and advocating for practical recommendations on the peace process and to improve the economic, political and humanitarian realities on the ground in the West Bank and Gaza. The team also focuses on efforts aimed at allowing for renewed and credible discussions between the Palestinian and Israeli governments, including on pressing issues related to the economic and fiscal stability of the Palestinian Authority, as well as working with the sides on ideas to boost the Palestinian economy.[1]\r\n\r\nThe Tony Blair Institute warned of growing Iranian threat. According to The Tony Blair Institute: \"The totalitarian and divisive worldview born from the 1979 Iranian Revolution\u2026 has been a driving force of instability and violence for years. Unless Western leaders can learn the lessons from the 1979 revolution, the threat Iran poses will continue to grow.\"[5]\r\n\r\nGovernance\r\nTheir governance work focuses on working with governments and leaders of fragile, developing and emerging states to enhance their effectiveness. They help governments and leaders make their vision for development a reality. Providing analysis, commentary and lessons from their work with governments in fragile, developing and emerging states.[6]\r\n\r\nThe Tony Blair Institute has projects in 14 African countries, whose combined population exceeds 460 million. Their governance work is primarily programmatic. Tony Blair provides advice to African leaders with Tony Blair Institute advisers working in governments, helping them implement their own visions for development.[1]\r\n\r\nFunding\r\nBlair gave the reserves of his former business to provide the seed funding for his new Institute.[7] On 21 July 2018, it was reported by the Telegraph that Blair had signed a deal worth \u00a39,000,000 with Saudi Arabia.[8] The article quotes a spokesperson saying while the Institute was under no duty to disclose donors or donations they confirmed receiving a donation from Media Investment Ltd, a subsidiary of the Saudi Research and Marketing Group registered in Guernsey, to fund their work for modernisation and reform working for a regional solution to the peace process as well as on governance in Africa and promoting religious co-existence.[9] The Tony Blair Institute confirmed that it has received donations from the U.S. State Department and Saudi Arabia.[10]\r\n\r\nLegacy Organisations\r\nOn 1 December 2016 Blair announced that \u2018The Africa Governance Initiative\u2019; \u2018The Tony Blair Faith Foundation\u2019; and his \u2018Initiative for the Middle East\u2019 would all become part of the Tony Blair Institute. Saying: \u201cOver the past nine years we have built a family of organisations which together employ nearly 200 people; have worked in over 30 countries; and have produced some real and lasting achievements. 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