Christopher Makins, 2nd Baron Sherfield
Christopher James Makins, 2nd Baron Sherfield was an Anglo-American diplomat, foreign policy expert, and author.
Early life
Christopher James Makins was born at Southampton, New York on 23 July 1942, the son of a British father Roger Mellor Makins, later 1st Baron Sherfield and an American mother, Alice Brooks Davis, daughter of the American sportsman and politician Dwight F. Davis. Thus he held dual citizenship of the UK and the United States.He was educated at St Ronan's School, Winchester College, and New College, Oxford. After taking a first-class degree in Modern History in 1963, he was elected a Fellow of All Souls.
Career
From 1964 until 1975, he served in H. M. Diplomatic Service. He and his family lived in Washington, D.C., where he worked for the Trilateral Commission, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Aspen Institute before becoming President of the Atlantic Council of the United States. He was a Senior Adviser to the German Marshall Fund and President of the Marshall Sherfield Foundation, which he had established in memory of his father.He wrote or contributed to numerous articles and reports over the course of his career, including The Study of Europe in the United States: A Report to the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States.
He was also an art collector and active on the boards of arts organisations such as the Phillips Collection, Washington Concert Opera, and WETA.