Michael spent 16 years in HM Diplomatic Service. He was subsequently International Director of Save the Children and, from 1995-2005, Chief Executive. He is now Chairman of Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Chairman of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva, Vice-Chair of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and a non-executive director of Oxford Policy Management Ltd. A visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, and King's College, London, he also lectures at the UK Defence Academy and at NATO HQ on civil/military co-operation.
