tank of the year, and the second-most influential in the world after the Brookings Institution, and the world's most influential non-U.S. think tank. Officers The current chairman of the Council of Chatham House is Sir Nigel Sheinwald GCMG and its director is Bronwen Maddox who took over in 2022 from Sir Robin Niblett. Research directors are Tim Benton, Patricia Lewis, Creon Butler, and Alex Vines. Chatham House has three presidents: Lord Darling of Roulanish, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Baroness Manningham-Buller, a crossbench peer and former Director General of MI5, and Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand. Funding During the 2020/2021 year, Chatham's largest donors were the MAVA Foundation which provided over ₤5,000,000 and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, which provided over ₤1,000,000. The charitable organisation Robert Bosch Stiftung and the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided between ₤500,000 and ₤1,000,000 each. In November 2022, the funding transparency website Who Funds You? gave the Chatham a C grade (rating goes from A to E). See also Australian Institute of International Affairs Canadian International Council Council on Foreign Relations German Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs List of think tanks in the United Kingdom Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael Pakistan Institute of International Affairs Singapore Institute of International Affairs The World Today References Bibliography Bosco, A., and C. Navari, eds. Chatham House and British Foreign Policy, 1919-1945: The Royal Institute of International Affairs During the Interwar Period (London, 1994). Morgan, R. "'To Advance the Sciences of International Politics...': Chatham House’s Early Research", International Affairs, 55:2 (1979), 240–251. Parmar, I. "Anglo-American Elites in the Interwar Years: Idealism and Power in Chatham House and the Council on Foreign Relations", International Relations 16:53 (2002), 53–75. Perry, Jamie Kenneth John. "Chatham House, The United Nations Association and the politics of foreign policy, c. 1945-1975" (PhD Diss. University of Birmingham, 2015) online. Thorne, Christopher. "Chatham House, Whitehall, and Far Eastern Issues: 1941-1945", International Affairs, 54:1 (1978), 1-29. Williams, Paul. "A Commonwealth of knowledge: Empire, intellectuals and the Chatham House Project, 1919–1939." International Relations 17.1 (2003): 35–58. External links Architectural history and description - from the Survey of London Conference papers, research memoranda and miscellaneous papers relating to the work of the Far East Department of the Royal Institute of International Affairs are held by SOAS Archives. 1920 establishments in the United Kingdom Foreign policy and strategy think tanks based in the