Michael Maclay

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Michael Maclay, diplomat, journalist and spy


Career

  • As has been noted in Private Eye, Maclay, worked on Weekend World at London Weekend Television (LWT) under John Birt and Peter Mandelson.[1]
  • A career Foreign Office official, he spent 'eight years a career diplomat, serving in Lagos, the British Mission to the United Nations, and in the Foreign Office.'[2]
  • He left the diplomatic service for a media career, spending eight years in the media,[2] first at LWT and then, with David Lipsey, as a founding figure of the Sunday Correspondent. After that paper's collapse Maclay was rapidly recruited to Robert Maxwell's new newspaper venture, The European.
  • Returning to the Foreign Office, he was then Special Adviser to Douglas Hurd as Foreign Secretary, dealing mainly with the politics of the European Union and the Balkans.[3]
  • After signature of the Dayton Agreement he joined Carl Bildt the Swedish Conservative, High Representative for Bosnia, as his Special Adviser and Chief Spokesman.[2]
  • 'Educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Freiburg, he has been a diplomat, a journalist and a senior political adviser'[4]
  • McLay was also an early member of BAP and was director of Hakluyt: the strategic intelligence firm, many of whose directors were formerly senior figures in MI6.[5] between 1 Jan 1998-30 Jun 2002.
  • He joined the Citizenship Foundation, a British charity which encourages active and effective citizenship, became chairman in 2000 and retired from the board in 2013 [6]
  • He is on the Advisory Board of the British American Project.'[6]
  • He is Senior Adviser to the Franco-British-German Club of Three[6], Maclay 'has been closely involved with the Club of Three since helping Lord Weidenfeld to set it up in 1995/6.'[2]
Maclay at a reception in honour of Douglas Hurd at the German Embassy in London, 24 May 2005

Affiliations

Publications

His publications include Multi-Speed Europe (Chatham House, 1992), Maastricht Made Simple (The European 1993), and the Pocket History of the European Union (Sutton 1998).[9]

Notes

  1. Hakluyt Watch, Private Eye, No. 1031, 29 June - 12 July, 2001
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Club of Three Michael Maclay, Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 3 July 2007, accessed 30 March 2009
  3. Appointments in 1993 The Independent, Published 3 July 1993, Accessed 23 September 2014
  4. http://www.gbf.com/gbf/p5.asp
  5. [1]
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Michael Maclay Profile Citizenship Foundation, Accessed 23 September 2014
  7. Personal Profile Michael Maclay
  8. Montrose Associates Board Members Accessed 23 September 2014
  9. http://www.gbf.com/gbf/p5.asp