16 Facts About Chatham House

Chatham House, known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs, is an independent policy institute headquartered in London.

Chatham House accepts individual members as well as members from corporations, academic institutions and NGOs.

Chatham House research is structured around five thematic programmes, comprising: environment and society; global economy and finance; global health security; international law; and international security; as well as six regional programmes, covering Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, Russia and Eurasia, and the US and Americas.

Chatham House contains the Sustainability Accelerator, which focuses on the political economy of resource production and consumption.

Chatham House produces the policy journals International Affairs and Journal of Cyber Policy as well as a bi-monthly magazine, The World Today.

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Chatham House Prize is an annual award presented to "the person, persons or organization deemed by members of Chatham House to have made the most significant contribution to the improvement of international relations in the previous year".

Around this time Chatham House became known as the place for leading statesmen and actors in world affairs to visit when in London; notably, Mahatma Gandhi visited the institute on 20 October 1931, in which he delivered a talk on 'The Future of India'.

Chatham House held the first Commonwealth Relations Conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1933.

Chatham House had been researching potential post-war issues as early as 1939 through the Committee on Reconstruction.

In reaction to the changing post-war world, Chatham House embarked on a number of studies relating to Britain and the Commonwealth's new political stature, in light of growing calls for decolonisation and the development of the Cold War.

Chatham House played a more direct role in the international affairs of the Cold War through the October 1975 Anglo-Soviet round-table, the first in a series of meetings between Chatham House and the Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow.

Chatham House Prize was launched in 2005, recognising heads of state and organisations that made a significant contribution to international relations during the previous year.

In 2016, Chatham House published Elite Perceptions of the United States in Latin America and the Post-Soviet States, examining how elites in Latin America and the former Soviet Union view the United States, and providing recommendations on how the US could adjust its policies based on these perceptions.

In November 2016, Chatham House was named Prospect magazine's Think-Tank of the Year, as well as the winner in the UK categories for International Affairs and Energy and Environment.

Current chairman of the Council of Chatham House is Sir Nigel Sheinwald GCMG and its director is Sir Robin Niblett.

Chatham House has three presidents: Lord Darling of Roulanish, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Baroness Manningham-Buller, a crossbench peer and former Director General of MI5, and Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand.