Lord Macdonald
He was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Macdonald of Tradeston, in the City of Glasgow on 2 October 1998. He served as Minister for Business and Industry in the Scottish Office (1998–99), Minister for Transport in the Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions, in attendance at cabinet (1999–2001) and Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (2001–03)
Member of Cabinet Office Advisory Committee on Business Appointments. Also member of House of Lords' Select Committees on Economic Affairs (2004–2008), and Communications (2009-).Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group. On Steering Group of OECD Futures Programme on Infrastructure and Advisory Board of OECD International Transport Forum.
Lord Macdonald was installed as Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University in October 2007, succeeding Magnus Magnusson, he also served as a member of the Council (2006–2008) and of Court (2009-) at the University of Sussex.
In 2011 he was invited to deliver the MacMillan Memorial Lecture to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland. He chose the subject 'Bridging the Infrastructure Gap'.
Patron, Dystonia Society.
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