Dr Robin Niblett CMG

Robin Niblett has been the Director and Chief Executive of Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) since January 2007.

Before joining Chatham House, from 2001 to 2006, Robin was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). During his last two years at CSIS, he also served as Director of the CSIS Europe Programme and its Initiative for a Renewed Transatlantic Partnership.

He is currently co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Geopolitics. He served as Chair of the Experts Group for the 2014 NATO Summit and Chair of the British Academy’s Steering Committee of Languages for Security Project (2013).

His most recent publications include Britain, the EU and the Sovereignty Myth (Chatham House 2016) and America and a Changed World: A Question of Leadership (Chatham House/Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

His commentary and analysis have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian, among others. He is a regular commentator on Bloomberg 'Surveillance', BBC News, and CNN International.

Robin is a frequent panellist at conferences on geopolitics, Europe and transatlantic relations and has testified to British parliamentary Committees and US Congressional Committees.

He was appointed Companion of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2015 New Year's Honours. He received his BA in Modern Languages and MPhil and DPhil in International Relations from New College, Oxford.