UK in the World Programme

The UK in the World Programme would like to acknowledge the support of the members of our steering group:

Bronwen Maddox

Bronwen Maddox is the Director and Chief Executive of Chatham House. Before joining Chatham House, Bronwen was Director of the Institute for Government (2016-2022), an independent think tank based in London promoting better government. From 2010 to 2016 she was editor and chief executive of Prospect, the monthly current affairs magazine. Before that, she served as chief foreign commentator, foreign editor and US editor at The Times, after a period at the Financial Times where she ran award-winning investigations and wrote economics editorials.

Before becoming a journalist, Bronwen was an investment analyst in the City and a director of Kleinwort Benson Securities, where she ran its highly-rated team analysing world media stocks.

Baroness Manningham-Buller LG DCB

Eliza Manningham-Buller is co-president of Chatham House. She was Director-General of the UK Security Service (MI5) between 2002 and 2007 and became an independent life peer in 2008. She served as Chairman of the Council of Imperial College London from 2011 to 2015.

She was a member of the Board of Governors of the Wellcome Trust from 2008 to 2021 and Chair of the Wellcome Trust’s Board of Governors from 2015 to 2021.

Sir Nigel Sheinwald GCMG

Sir Nigel served for nearly four decades in the British Diplomatic Service. He was ambassador to the US (2007-12), foreign policy and defence adviser to the UK prime minister (2003-07), and ambassador to the EU (2000-03). He also served as the UK prime minister’s special envoy for international data sharing (2014-15).

He is a non-executive director of Invesco, an asset management company, and of Oxford Instruments plc. He is also a senior adviser to Universal Music Group and Tanium, a cyber security company, a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation and member of the advisory board of the Centre for European Reform.  He is an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford and Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple. He chaired the Safety, Environment and Sustainability Committee of the energy company Shell plc, stepping down as a member of the board in 2021.

Baroness Valerie Amos

Valerie Amos is currently Master of University College Oxford. She has had a long career in public service with a particular focus on social justice and global issues. She is a former UK Secretary of State for International Development and former Under Secretary General of the United Nations.

Ashlee Godwin

Ashlee Godwin is a senior specialist in national security and international policy in the House of Commons, where she runs a team of policy experts to support the foreign affairs, defence, international development and international trade select committees, in addition to the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy. In 2020-21, she was seconded to Downing Street, where she worked as a policy adviser to the prime minister and was the No. 10 penholder for the 2021 Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy.

Sir Nick Carter

General Sir Nick Carter has over 45 years’ military experience, including as the Chief of the Defence Staff where he was the principal military advisor to the Prime Minister. He also served as the Chief of the General Staff, professional Head of the British Army.

He has commanded operations in a range of contexts, including in Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. He helped write the Defence element of the Government’s Integrated Review in 2020 and led the restructuring of the British Army following the 2010 Defence Review.

Sir Julian King

Sir Julian is a Senior Advisor at Flint Global, Fellow of RUSI and the Oxford Internet Institute. He was the last British European Commissioner, serving as EU Commissioner for the Security Union from 2016-2019.

He joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 1985, holding various positions including UK Ambassador to France (2016); Director General Economic & Consular (2014); Director General of the Northern Ireland Office London and Belfast (2011); UK Ambassador to Ireland (2009); EU Commission Chef de Cabinet to Commissioner for Trade (2008); and UK Representative on EU Political and Security Committee, (2004).  

Sir Jon Symonds CBE

Sir Jonathan Symonds was appointed to the Board of GlaxoSmithKline as Chairman in 2019. He has extensive international financial, life sciences and governance experience.

Jon served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of HSBC Holdings plc from April 2014, and as Deputy Group Chairman from August 2018, until his retirement from the Board in February 2020.

We would like to acknowledge the support and advice of our Advisory Council:

Zanny Minton Beddoes: Editor in Chief, The Economist

Ruth Bergan: Director, Trade Justice Movement

Baroness Judith Blake of Leeds CBE:  Member of the House of Lords

Alistair Burt: Minister of State for the Middle East at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Minister of State at the Department for International Development (2017-2019)

Andy Burwell

Grace Cassy: Co-founder, CyLon

Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles KCMG LVO: Group Head, Public Affairs, HSBC Holdings plc

Sophie Daud: Chief Executive Officer, Future Leaders Network

Sir Simon Fraser: Permanent Secretary, Foreign & Commonwealth Office (2010-15)

Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman: Emeritus Professor, War Studies, King’s College London

Dr Youchi Funabashi: President, Asia Strategy Institute (Japan)

Professor Alice Gast: President, Imperial College London (2014-22); Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London

Sophia Gaston: Director, British Foreign Policy Group (2019-22); Head, Foreign Policy, UK Resilience, Policy Exchange

Dr Heather Grabbe: Senior Adviser, Executive Office, Open Society Foundations

Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier KCB CBE DFC ADC MA RAF: Air Chief Marshal; Chief of the Air Staff (2016-19); Non-executive director, UK Atomic Energy Authority

Sunder Katwala: Director, British Future

Alicia Kearns MP: Member of Parliament for Rutland and Melton; Chair, House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee

Baroness Helena Kennedy of The Shaws KC: Member of the House of Lords; Director, International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute

Benedetta Lacey: International Strategy Deputy Director, UK Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Angus Lapsley: Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Dame Mariot Leslie DCMG: UK Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council( 2010-14)

Andrew Marr: Presenter, LBC;  Political Editor New Statesman

Dr Simon Mehdian-Staffell: Director, UK Government Affairs, Microsoft

Professor Anand Menon: Director, UK in a Changing Europe

David Miliband: President and CEO, International Rescue Committee; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (2007-10)

Professor Duncan Morrow: Professor in Politics and Director of Community Engagement, Ulster University

Sir Robin Niblett DPhil: Distinguished Fellow, Europe Programme, Chatham House; Director and Chief Executive, Chatham House (2007-22)

Professor Helen Parr: Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Keele University

Dr Kori Schake: Director of Foreign and Defense Policy, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

Vasuki Shastry: Contributor, Forbes; Author, ‘Has Asia Lost It? Dynamic Past, Turbulent Future’

Lesley Smith: Vice President Corporate Communications & Public Affairs, Revolut

Hau Yu Tam: Head of Campaigns, End Violence and Racism Against East and Southeast Asian Communities (EVR)

Dr Hasan Turunç: Senior Advisor, Koç Holding A.Ş; Director, TÜSİAD

Gesine Weber: Research Analyst, German Marshall Fund of the US, Paris; PhD candidate, Defence Studies Department, King’s College London

Jhénelle Williams: Scientist and Climate Advocate; 2021 Chevening Scholar

Amanda Wolthuizen: Chief of Staff to the President and Director of Public Affairs, Imperial College London

Georgina Wright: Senior Fellow and Director, Europe Program, Institut Montaigne

Contact

For information on supporting the UK in the World Programme, please contact Rebecca Dugard.

Funding

The UK in the World Programme seeks support from organizations and individuals that recognize the importance of independent and rigorously objective policy-focused research which will further understanding of the geopolitical, diplomatic and security issues affecting the UK. All research programmes and staff adhere to the Chatham House Principles for Independent Research and Convening. For further information on Chatham House’s overall funding, please visit the Our Funding pages.

The UK in the World Programme would like to thank the following organizations for their recent and current support of our work:

• HSBC Holdings plc
• Koç Holding
• Microsoft
• Robert Bosch Stiftung
• Rothschild Foundation