Chatham House

Chatham House
legal form	Private Policy Think Tank
founding	1920
Seat	London
people	Queen Elizabeth II , John Major , Lord Ashdown
Members	2770 individuals, 75 large companies, 263 other companies
Website	www.chathamhouse.org

Founded in 1920, Chatham House , also known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs until 2004 , is a privately owned, world-leading British think tank based in London . Its members deal in study programs, working groups, roundtables, conferences and seminars with current issues and analyzes of current political events at international level. The expertises and solution recommendations created here can be specifically distributed worldwide by the internationally active members. Individual key projects are financed and sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation , the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , the Konrad Adenauer Foundation , NATO or the EU .

In addition to the corporate members , consisting of 75 large corporations, investment banks , energy groups and 263 other companies, the Chatham House currently has 2,770 international decision-makers from business, diplomacy, science, politics and the media from 75 countries among its members and had one in 2012 A budget of 12 million euros generated from business, foundations and membership fees.

The private, non-governmental non-profit organization under the patronage of Elizabeth II is the founder of the Chatham House Rule, which is applied worldwide . Leading party representatives from the three governing parties in the British Parliament act as presidents .

International Affairs and The World Today , published by Chatham House, are among the leading specialist bodies in international politics .

Entrance to Chatham House, 10 St. James's Square , London

history

Chatham House founder Lord Robert Cecil

The establishment of the institute goes back to the initiative of British and American delegates led by Lionel Curtis , who proposed an Anglo-American institute for foreign relations at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 to study international problems with the aim of to prevent wars in the future. In fact, the British Institute of International Affairs was founded in July 1920 under the chairmanship of Robert Cecil and with Lionel Curtis as Honorary Secretary, and a year later the American delegation to the Peace Conference opened its US counterpart, the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City .

1923 the Institute was the Chatham House on St. James's Square No.10 in the London borough of City of Westminster by Colonel Reuben Wells Leonard given where it resides since then. The Chatham House is the former home of the British Prime Minister William Pitt the Elder , Edward Stanley and William Ewart Gladstone and is located right next to the headquarters of energy giant BP , as well as key ministries of the British government.

The Royal Institute of International Affairs , according to Kees Van Der Pijl, was an important institution in the formation of a transnational class of Protestant, English-speaking whites.

Since September 2004 "Chatham House" has been the official name of the Royal Institute of International Affairs and, together with the Council on Foreign Relations, was the model for the German think tank, the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP), founded in 1955 .

Current

Bundesbank President and BIS Director Jens Weidmann gave the “Rebalancing Europe” speech in March 2011 at Chatham House

In 2012, Chatham House was named the second most important of 6,545 relevant think tanks worldwide in the prestigious Global Go-To Think Tank Index Rankings of the Pennsylvania State University behind the Brookings Institution , and for the fourth time in a row as the most important think tank outside the USA.

Leading international politicians, state guests, tax officials, CEOs of major corporations, UN , IMF and World Bank officials regularly attend discussions and lectures at Chatham House . Top-class guests in 2011 included the IMF Director Christine Lagarde , the President of the European Council Herman van Rompuy , the British Foreign Minister William Hague and the Jordanian King Abdullah II bin al-Hussein , Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and the President of the Deutsche Bundesbank Director of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Jens Weidmann .

The presidents of the private think tank are the party leaders of the three ruling parties in the British Parliament , former Conservative Prime Minister John Major , former UN representative and representative of the Liberal Democrats Lord Ashdown , and the British Attorney General Baroness Patricia Scotland from the Labor Party's shadow cabinet .

membership

The current 2,770 members pay an annual membership fee of between £ 120 and £ 260 depending on their status. Corporations and companies have the option between a partnership , a major corporate membership and a standard corporate partnership . Annual fees are £ 2,750 for Standard Membership and £ 12,500 for Major Membership. The costs for a partnership are not published.

Corporate partners of Chatham House include a. BP , ExxonMobil and Chevron , founded by John D. Rockefeller , as well as Royal Dutch Shell , Statoil , the British Department of Defense and the United Arab Emirates' Department of Foreign Affairs .

Among the major corporate members to include u. a. the world's three largest raw material mining groups Rio Tinto Group , BHP Billiton and Anglo American , the state-owned oil companies from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia , the US embassy , the investment banks Goldman Sachs , HSBC and Morgan Stanley , the major banks Deutsche Bank , Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland , one of the world's largest insurance companies AIG , the arms companies BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin , the world's largest law firms Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters , the world's largest accounting firms KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers , the world's largest management consulting company Accenture , the world's largest news agency Thomson Reuters , the media giants BBC and Bloomberg , the world's largest tobacco company British American Tobacco , the City of London , Glaxo Smith Kline and Vodafone .

As corporate members , 68 embassies from all over the world and a. The following companies are represented: the Italian central bank Banca d'Italia , the world's largest chemical company BASF , Boeing , CBS News , Citigroup , the Wall Street law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP , the world's largest diamond producer and dealer De Beers , the world's largest commodities trader Vitol , the world's largest oil explorer Schlumberger , the armaments company EADS , Google , Mondelēz International , the UBS bank, the traditional investment bank Warburg Pincus and the World Bank .

Governing bodies of Chatham House

Directors

Chatham House President John Major

• Robin Niblett; Member of the board of directors of Fidelity Investments , the third most influential company in the world economy according to a study by ETH Zurich , chairman of the World Economic Forum 's Global Agenda Council on Europe, director of the European program of the Washington Think Tanks Center for Strategic and International Studies
• DeAnne Julius; From 2003 to 2012 chairwoman of Chatham House , former advisor to the World Bank , the IMF , in senior management positions at Shell , British Airways of the US government and board member of the Bank of England , BP and the British major bank Lloyds Banking Group . Current board member at the pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche and the global real estate giant Jones Lang LaSalle , as well as director at the auditing company Deloitte & Touche Corporate Finance GmbH Munich

Council / Advisory Board (selection)

• Roderic Lyne; British diplomat from 1970 to 2004, currently senior advisor at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
• Greg Baxter; Global Head of Mobile Strategy at Citigroup , former Booz & Company board member
• Stuart Popham; Vice Chairman of EMEA Banking, Citigroup
• John Llewellyn, Llewellyn Consulting, former senior economic policy advisor at Lehman Brothers
• Alastair Newton; Political Analyst in Charge, Investment Bank Nomura International plc
• Andrew Fraser; Senior advisor to Mitsubishi Corporation , former CEO of investment firm Invest UK
• Martin Giles; US correspondent for The Economist
• Xan Smiley; Editor for the Middle East and North Africa at The Economist
• Caroline Wyatt, BBC Defense Policy Correspondent

Senior Advisers / Main Advisor (selection)

Adviser to Caio Koch-Weser

• John Major , Chatham House Chairman Senior Adviser, former UK Prime Minister
• John C. Whitehead , partner at Goldman Sachs since 1956 , former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York , former deputy US Secretary of State
• Caio Koch-Weser ; former Vice President and Managing Director of the World Bank and Financial Secretary of the German Federal Government , today he is a consultant at the Deutsche Bank , a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bertelsmann Foundation , the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum and the board of the Brussels-based think tank Bruegel active
• David Manning; Former British ambassador to the USA (2003–2007) and defense advisor to Tony Blair (2001–2003), author of the " Manning Memo " on the British-American invasion of Iraq, since 2008 director of the armaments company Lockheed Martin and advisor to the British intelligence agency Hakluyt & Company
• André Hoffmann; Deputy CEO of the pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche
• Michael Rake; CEO of the BT Group and easyjet
• Andrés Rozental; former Mexican diplomat; Founding President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations ; Chairman of the second largest steel company in the world ArcelorMittal Mexico , Senior Partner of the Brookings Institution

Chatham House Rule

2012 Chatham House Prize for Moncef Marzouki and Sheikh Ghannuschi

Chatham House is known for establishing a confidentiality rule named after the institute, the Chatham House Rule . This rule was established in 1927; it states that participants in seminars and discussion groups may freely use the information they have received, but may not disclose the identity and affiliation of a speaker or other participants. The rule applies, for example, to conferences and meetings of the leading US think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations, and to the annual Bilderberg conferences . In the official German translation it says:

“At events (or parts of events) that fall under the Chatham House Rule, participants are permitted to freely use the information received on condition that neither the identity nor the affiliation of speakers or other participants may be revealed. "

Web links

Commons : Chatham House  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of Chatham House (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History of Chatham House from the Chatham House Annual Report 2013/2014 (PDF file; 3.51 MB)
2. ↑ About us: What we do at Chatham House (PDF file; 3.51 MB)
3. ↑ Kees van der Pijl: "Private world politics" - On the history of the liberal world order . In: Tanja Brühl : The Privatization of World Policy: Denationalization and Commercialization in the Globalization Process , Bonn 2001, pp. 88–91.
4. ^ Daniel Eisermann: Foreign policy and strategy discussion . In´: The German Society for Foreign Policy 1955–1972 . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1999, Volume 66, pp. 62ff, ISBN 3-486-56338-6 .
5. ↑ James G. McGann: 2011 Global Go To Think Tanks Report and Policy Advice. (PDF; 1.5 MB) In: Website of the TTCSP - Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania. Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, International Relations Program, University of Pennsylvania, Jan. 23, 2012, pp. 34-36 , archived from the original on February 28, 2013 ; accessed on October 9, 2016 (English). 
6. ↑ Annual Report of Chatham House 2011/2012, page 3, page 23 ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 3.51 MB) Live: 56-minute speech by Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble in Chatham House  
   
7. ↑ Annual Report of Chatham House, page 40 ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 3.51 MB)  
8. ↑ Chatham House-Vita: Dr. Robin Niblett
9. ↑ Vita: DeAnne Shirley Julius from Bloomberg businessweek
10. ^ Stepin after the Bilderberg conference in need of explanation Die Welt from June 5, 2012
11. ↑ Chatham House : Chatham House Rule Translations . Accessed September 14, 2012.

Remarks

1. ↑ Royal Institute of International Affairs is the formal name in legal and financial matters even after 2004.

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