International Institute for Strategic Studies

The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), according to the organization's web site, "is the primary source of accurate, objective information on international strategic issues for politicians and diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business, economists, the military, defence commentators, journalists, academics and the informed public."

It further states: "Because of its network, international reach, and high-level contacts with governments throughout the world, the IISS, more than any other institute of its kind, has tremendous 'convening power', and regularly brings together ministers and government officials from different countries in order to discuss problems that divide or unite them. Indeed, the Institute's increasing 'paradiplomatic' activity has made it an actor in discreet international relations."

Membership

"The Institute has 3,000 members drawn from the government, business and academic élites of over 100 countries. Its current roster of around 200 Corporate and Institutional Members includes some 55 research centres and institutes, 25 media organisations, 35 government ministries and agencies and 40 commercial organisations along with numerous military staff colleges and university departments. The wide range of business interests represented include finance and investment, international banking, insurance, computing, shipping, infrastructure development, automobile production, management consulting, gas and oil, power generation and transmission, aerospace and defence, major media outlets and telecommunications."[1]

Directing Staff

• John Chipman, Director
• Julia Redfern, Special Assistant to the Director
• Colonel David King, Administrative Director
• Terence Taylor, Assistant Director; President, IISS-US
• Alex Nicoll, Assistant Director and Senior Fellow for Defence Industry and Procurement
• Dr. Gary Samore, Director of Studies; Senior Fellow for Non-Proliferation

Trustees

Accessed February 2010:

• Robert D. Blackwill
• Sir Ronald Cohen
• Olivier Debouzy
• Fleur de Villiers
• Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank
• François Heisbourg
• John Hillen
• André Hoffmann
• Chris Jones
• Thomas Seaman
• Sir Robert Wade Gery

Former Trustees

• Professor François Heisbourg, Chairman
• Ms Fleur de Villiers, Vice-Chairman
• Sir Robert Wade-Gray, Honorary Treasurer and Investment Committee Chairman
• Peter Stormouth Darling, Audit Committee Chairman
• Dr. John Chipman, Director
• Colonel David King, Secretary
• President: Vacant
• Professor Sir Michael Howard, President-Emeritus
• Hon. Robert Ellsworth, Vice President
• Sir Michael Palliser, Vice President
• Amb. Yoshio Okawara, Vice-President

• Executive Committee
• Experts

Council

• Council Members
• Hironori Aihara
• Ross Babbage
• Carl Bildt
• Dennis C. Blair
• Thérèse Delpech
• Fleur de Villiers
• Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank
• Rita E. Hauser
• François Heisbourg
• David Ignatius
• Roy MacLaren
• Kishore Mahbubani
• Moeletsi Mbeki
• Edwina Moreton
• Pauline Neville-Jones
• Gunther Nonnenmacher
• Thomas Pickering
• Lord Powell of Bayswater
• V R Raghavan
• Michael D. Rich
• Adam Roberts
• Yukio Satoh
• Thomas Seaman
• Lilia Shevtsova
• Robert Wade-Gery
• Theodor Winkler

Contact

The International Institute for Strategic Studies - UK

Arundel House

13-15 Arundel Street

Temple Place

London WC2R 3DX

United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7379 7676

Fax: +44 (0) 20 7836 3108

E Mail: iiss@iiss.org

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Resources and articles

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• Helena Cobban - Quaker member
• Shahram Chubin
• Rose E. Gottemoeller
• Bates Gill
• Hans Binnendijk
• Ali Eldin Helal - former council member
• International Institute for Strategic Studies - US