He is currently working as a Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute based in Sydney, Australia.

He previously was based in Japan and also other locations such as Shanghai, Taiwan, Sydney, Melbourne, Washington, D.C., and London.

He also worked for the International Herald Tribune, the BBC and the Far Eastern Economic Review,[3] and is the former bureau chief for the Financial Times.

McGregor wrote The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, published by Allen Lane from Penguin Press in the UK and HarperCollins in the US in June 2010.

[7][8][9] He appeared on the Charlie Rose show on 18 January 2011 to discuss Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Washington, D.C.;[10] and on 6 September 2017 to discuss Asian, especially Chinese-Japanese, international relations, and the United States' role in Asia.