Michael Maclay

Biographical Information
"Michael has been a Trustee of the Citizenship Foundation since 1993, and took over the Chair from Andrew Phillips in 2000. His original involvement with the Foundation came with Maastricht Made Simple, a project to make sense of the very complicated Treaty which paved the way for Europe's single currency. This aimed to equip young people to take an informed view on European unity, making the case both for and against European integration, with a booklet, a half-hour video, and teachers' classroom notes...Professionally, he has been a career diplomat, a TV and newspaper journalist, and a political adviser: to Douglas Hurd as Foreign Secretary and to Carl Bildt as the international community's High Representative in Bosnia.

"He is now Chairman of the strategic consultancy Montrose Associates, Senior Adviser to the Franco-British-German Club of Three, and a member of the Advisory Board of the British American Project. "