Chatham House, home of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, is a world-leading institute for the debate and analysis of international issues. Chatham House was founded in 1920 and granted its Royal Charter in 1926. It is based in St James’s Square in London. The Chatham House Rule, famous worldwide for facilitating free speech and confidentiality at meetings, originated here.
Our Mission
Our mission is to be a world-leading source of independent analysis, informed debate and influential ideas on how to build a prosperous and secure world for all.
Chatham House pursues this mission:
- by drawing on our membership to promote open as well as confidential debates about significant developments in international affairs and about the context and content of policy responses;
- by producing independent and rigorous analysis of critical global, regional and country-specific challenges;
- by offering new ideas to decision-makers and -shapers on how these could best be tackled from the near to long term.
Source: ChathamHouse.org
