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Michael Maclay

Michael Maclay is Executive Chairman of Montrose Associates, which provides strategic intelligence and advice to corporate and government clients. Educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Freiburg, he has been a diplomat, a journalist and a senior political adviser, to Douglas Hurd when he was British Foreign Secretary, and to Carl Bildt when he was International High Representative in Bosnia.

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). He is Chairman of the Citizenship Foundation, a British charity which encourages active and effective citizenship, Senior Adviser to the Franco-British-German Club of Three, and a member of the Advisory Board of the British American Project.