Question: What political party does the head of the Department of International Development belong to?

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Priti Patel: Priti Sushil Patel {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 29 March 1972) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Witham constituency in Essex since 2010.  She is currently Secretary of State for International Development.  A member of the Conservative Party, she is regarded as being ideologically on the party's right-wing and has been described as a Thatcherite.

Halima Begum: Halima Begum (Bengali: হালিনা বেগম ; born 18 October 1975) is a British Civil servant, international development professional and Director Education of East Asia at the British Council.  She was previously first secretary for development at the Department for International Development (DIFD).

Jacklet Atuhaire: Jacklet Rwabukurukuru Atuhaire Mukwana (born 20 June 1981) is a Ugandan oil and gas expert, international development professional and politician.  She is the elected Woman MP for Sheema District and is not affiliated to any political party in Uganda.  She succeeded NRM's Rosemary Nyakikongoro who in 2015 had defeated her in the party's primary elections in controversial circumstances.  Atuhaire is also a former guild president for the University of East London and is a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Gibril Faal: Gibril Faal (born 10 October 1967) is a British-Gambian business and development executive.  In 2014, he was appointed OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to international development, following a nomination by the Department for International Development (DfID).  He is a Visiting Professor in Practice at London School of Economics (Institute of Global Affairs).  He was one of the global leaders who spoke at the 19 September 2016 UN Summit on Refugees and Migrants, joining select presidents, prime ministers and institution leaders to address the question of 'International cooperation'.  Gibril serves as technical expert in the consultations and negotiations for the Global Compact on Migration.  He was the Grand Rapporteur of the Tenth Summit of the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) in Berlin in June 2017.  He co-moderated Common Space of the Eighth GFMD Summit in Istanbul in October 2015.  He co-chaired the seventh GFMD) in Stockholm in May 2014.  In 2013, he delivered two keynote addresses at the United Nations General Assembly.  He was selected to speak on behalf of global civil society and joined the UN Secretary General to open the High Level Dialogue on Migration and International Development.

UEA School of International Development: The School of International Development (formerly The School of Development Studies) is a department at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England.  Situated within the Faculty of Social Sciences, the School of International Development has been ranked in the top three British development studies departments.

Oyunerdene Luvsannamsrai: Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai (Mongolian: Лувсаннамсрайн Оюун-Эрдэнэ ) is one of the young political leaders of Mongolia.  His career was started as the Head of the Secretariat of the Governor of Berkh, Khentii, his hometown when he was only 21 years old.  Then he was recruited by World Vision Mongolia as the team leader of the Area Development Program (ADP) in Khentii province.  Eventually he was promoted to become the Zonal Director of the organization.  Since 2009 he has held senior leadership positions such as the Head of the Secretariat of the Governor, the Secretary and acting Secretary General of the Mongolian People's Party (MPP), the oldest political party of Mongolia.  Between 2010-2014 he served as the President of the Social Democracy Mongolian Youth Federation, the largest political youth organization of Mongolia.  He is considered as one of the major leaders of the Party as he led the Mongolian People's Party reform to become a modern political party.  He initiated the “Development Agenda-6” Party platform in 2009 and stood firm on his position to remove the word “revolutionary” from the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party's name.

Joel Barkan: Joel David Barkan (28 April 1941, Toledo, Ohio – 10 January 2014, Mexico City) was an American political scientist with a particular expertise in political development in Africa (especially Kenya).  He was a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa for over forty years.  He wrote numerous articles on the political development of Kenya for "Foreign Affairs".  Barkan was a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Washington; he also worked as a consultant for the World Bank and US Agency for International Development.  He also consulted for the United Kingdom's Department for International Development, the UN Development Program, the National Democratic Institute and the National Endowment for Democracy.

Stefan Dercon: Stefan Dercon is the current chief economist of the UK Department for International Development (DfID).  He is a Development Economist who has, since 2015, been Professor of Economic Policy at the Oxford University (at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Economics Department] and a Professorial Fellow of Jesus College.  He is also the Director of the Centre for Study of African Economies at Oxford University.  Previously he was Professor of Development Economics at Oxford University.  Between 2000 and 2002 he was Programme Director at the World Institute of Development Economics (WIDER), United Nations University where he led their research programme on “Insurance against Poverty”.  Prior to this between 1993 and 2000 he was a Tenured Professor of Development Economics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.  Until he joined DFID, he was also the Lead Academic for the Ethiopia country programme at the International Growth Centre, which is a research centre based jointly at The London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Oxford.

Department for International Development: The Department for International Development (DFID) is a United Kingdom government department responsible for administering overseas aid.  The goal of the department is "to promote sustainable development and eliminate world poverty".  DFID is headed by the United Kingdom's Secretary of State for International Development.  The position is held since 14 July 2016 by Priti Patel.  In a 2010 report by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), DFID was described as "an international development leader in times of global crisis".  The UK aid logo is often used to publicly acknowledge DFID's development programmes are funded by UK taxpayers.

Secretary of State for International Development: Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for International Development is a British cabinet minister responsible for the Department for International Development and for promoting development overseas, particularly in developing countries.  The post was created in 1997 when the Department for International Development was made independent of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Supporting paragraphs: Department for International Development Priti Patel
Answer: member of the Conservative Party