Career
Macadam was the first Secretary and Director-General of the Royal Institute of International Affairs between 1929 and 1955, based at Chatham House.
In this capacity he travelled to the then British Dominions and helped the independent establishment of the various Commonwealth InstItutes of International Affairs or where such bodies had earlier been established in both Australia and Canada to generate financial support from benefactors there for them to have their own full time secretariats (The Canadian Institute of International Affairs funding 1932; the Australian funding 1934. The formation of the Institutes in New Zealand 1934; The South African 1934: The Indian 1936: The Pakistan 1947).
He was also responsible for organising numerous international conferences around the world (e.g. Canada 1932, Australia 1933, New Zealand 1934 etc.)
During World War II he was Assistant Director General and Assistant Secretary to the Ministry of Information between 1939 – 41.
After his work in establishing the Ministry, he returned to the Royal Institute.
He also became the chairman and editor of The Annual Register of World Events 1947-72, the world’s oldest annual reference book founded by Edmund Burke.
He was a member of the editorial board (the Moot) of The Round Table: A Quarterly Review of the Politics of the British Commonwealth 1930-1974. Britain’s oldest international journal. (Now published as The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs).
Other offices included:
- Chairman 1960-72 (later Deputy President) of the Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship
- President, County of Norfolk St. John Ambulance Brigade 1957-67
- Chairman of the Board of Governors, Runton Hill School 1956-66
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