Michael Maclay

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Michael Maclay, diplomat, journalist and spy

Michael Maclay is former Director of Hakluyt and former Foreign Office official.

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] Maclay then 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 the paper's collapse Maclay was rapidly recruited to Robert Maxwell's new newspaper venture, The European. He then returned to the Foreign Office, before being appointed Special Adviser to Douglas Hurd as Foreign Secretary, dealing mainly with the politics of the European Union and the Balkans.[3] Maclay then joined Carl Bildt the Swedish Conservative, High Representative for Bosnia, as his Special Adviser and Chief Spokesman.[2]

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.[4] 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, [5] he is on the Advisory Board of the British American Project.'[5] and he is Senior Adviser to the Franco-British-German Club of Three[5], Maclay 'has been closely involved with the Club of Three since helping Lord Weidenfeld to set it up in 1995/6.'[2]

Education

  • 'Educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Freiburg'[6]
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, 3 July 1993, accessed 23 September 2014
  4. [1]
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Michael Maclay Profile Citizenship Foundation, accessed 23 September 2014
  6. http://www.gbf.com/gbf/p5.asp
  7. Personal Profile Michael Maclay
  8. Montrose Associates Board Members accessed 23 September 2014
  9. http://www.gbf.com/gbf/p5.asp