Michael Maclay

As has been noted in Private Eye, Maclay, worked on Weekend World at LWT under John Birt and Peter Mandelson.^[1]

A career Foreign Office official, he left the diplomatic service for a media career, 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. A later appointment took him out of journalism and back into diplomacy as special adviser to the European Union's High Representative in the former Yugoslavia, the Swedish Conservative, Carl Bildt. He was also a special adviser to Douglas Hurd, when he was Foreign Secretary.

McLay was also an early member of BAP and is involved in Hakluyt: the strategic intelligence firm, many of whose directors were formerly senior figures in MI6. [[2]]

Affiliations

• Citizenship Foundation, Trustee [3]
• He is now Chairman of the strategic consultancy Montrose Associates,
• Senior Adviser to the Franco-British-German Club of Three,
• a member of the Advisory Board of the British American Project.

Notes

^ Hakluyt Watch, Private Eye, No. 1031, 29 June - 12 July, 2001