Christopher Maccabe, Date of Birth

Christopher Maccabe

British civil servant

Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1946

Profession: civil servant

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Christopher George Maccabe CB (born 17 December 1946) is a former Political Director of the Northern Ireland Office, and a former British Joint Secretary of the British Irish Intergovernmental Conference.
Since 2006 he has been involved in conflict resolution and political development in various parts of the world, including Sri Lanka, Kosovo, the Middle East, Tanzania, Iraq, Lebanon, Cameroon and Colombia .
He is a member of a team appointed by the Minister of Justice in Northern Ireland to oversee the August 2010 agreement between the Minister and dissident republican prisoners in Maghaberry Prison.
He was a member of the International Verification Commission in the Basque Country that monitored the permanent ceasefire declared by ETA at the beginning of 2011.
The Commission’s work came to an end in April 2017 when it oversaw ETA’s final act of decommissioning its weapons and explosive.
He is a Director of the Forum for Cities in Transition (Belfast) Ltd, the Independent Chair of the Belfast Conflict Resolution Consortium; and a Director of the Centre for Democracy and Peace Building.
He was educated at Brackenber House School, the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Queen’s University Belfast and the University of London.
He is the son of Max (died 2000) and Gladys Maccabe MBE, a renowned Irish artist.
He is married to Jenny and has three children.