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Blair to teach at Yale University

Ewen MacAskill in Washington and Patrick Wintour
guardian.co.uk, Friday March 7 2008

Tony Blair is to take up a senior academic post in the autumn at one of
America's most prestigious universities teaching politics and religion.

Yale confirmed yesterday he is to join the schools of management and
divinity, at the campus in New Haven, Connecticut.

He will combine his work at Yale with his duties as a special envoy to the
Quartet, an international body committed to peace in the Middle East.

He is to spend part of each month in London and part in New Haven.

His work with the Quartet - which represents the United Nations, the US, the
European Union and Russia - takes up about ten days a month. Sources close
to Blair say that he is taking on an enormous work burden and will be
tremendously over-committed in the coming year.

The deans of the Yale schools of management and divinity are in discussion
with Blair about how much time he will spend at the university.