Adam is a Senior Clerk in the House of Commons and is currently the Second Clerk on the House of Commons Defence Committee and Secretary to the UK’s Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Adam has previously worked as the Constitutional Affairs Specialist for the House of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee. In this role, he drafted the Committee’s reports on English Votes for English Laws, Inter-Institutional Relations in the UK, the Strathclyde Review: Secondary Legislation and the Primacy of the House of Commons, and on the Lessons Learned from the EU Referendum. Prior to the referendum, Adam also managed the Committee's inquiry into the proposed disapplication of s.125 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act (PPERA) 2000 - a section that provides for a 'purdah' period during referendum campaigns.

Adam has a longstanding relationship with the Wales Governance Centre and Cardiff University. He first joined the Wales Governance Centre as a PhD candidate in 2012 and completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Cardiff University. His PhD explored the Speaker’s Conference on Devolution, 1919-1920 – one of only two occasions where the UK’s territorial governance was considered 'in the round' by policymakers at Westminster. Adam’s academic work has focused on UK constitutional history and devolution in the UK. He has previously also conducted research on the Liberal Democrats as a federal party in the UK’s party system, post-devolution.  Adam has been an Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University since 2015.

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Adam has been a regular contributor to the LLM Constitutionalism and Governance module, as well as leading lectures on Parliament and Devolution and Parliament and the Legislative Process for the undergraduate Parliamentary Studies module.