 He is currently a trustee of Inter Mediate  which facilitates negotiation to help bring a sustainable peace in the most difficult, complex and dangerous conflicts where other organisations are unable to operate.Stevenson married Charlotte Susan Vanneck, daughter of Sir Peter Vanneck, a former Lord Mayor of London, in 1972 and has four sons.He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1981 New Year Honours, knighted in the 1998 New Year Honours, and created a Life Peer on 13 July 1999 taking the title Baron Stevenson of Coddenham, of Coddenham in the County of Suffolk.