Annual Report - Chatham House

Annual Report 2001-2002

CONTENTS 

Chairman’s statement 1 

Director’s review 2-3 

Core research programmes 4-5 

Other research activity 6-7 

Conferences 8-9 

Meetings programme 10-15 

Publications 16-17 

Media 18 

Honorary Treasurer’s report 19 

Financial statements 20 

Consolidated statement of financial activity 21 

Balance sheets 22 

Development issues 23 

Patron, Presidents and Council 24 

Staff and structure 25 

Associate and Visiting Fellows 26 

Membership 27–28 

FRONT COVER BACKGROUND: The Rt Hon Jack Straw MP at Chatham House 

with Lord Marshall, Chairman, RIIA, and Professor Victor Bulmer-Thomas, 

Director, RIIA. 

FOREGROUND 1: The Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP, Secretary of State for Trade 

and Industry. 

FOREGROUND 2: Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper, US Ambassador-at- 

Large for War Crimes Issues. 

FOREGROUND 3: The Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, Leader of the Opposition. 

FOREGROUND 4: HE Thabo Mbeki, President, Republic of South Africa. 

FOREGROUND 5: Imran Khan, Leader, Pakistan Movement for Justice. 

PHOTOGRAPHS: Matthew Link and various sources. 

CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT 

We report on a year in which international affairs have 

come to the forefront of daily life for so many people in 

the United Kingdom and around the world. The appalling 

acts of terrorism and subsequent retaliatory actions 

have had profound effects in every walk of life at 

every level. Interest in world affairs has consequently 

broadened and the ongoing debate on international 

issues has extended to the grass-roots of our community. 

Never has the work of the Royal Institute of International 

Affairs been more relevant, nor its leadership in setting 

the agenda of debate more important. 

It is therefore very encouraging that new strategies for 

structural reform, for stable growth and for extending 

our public reach are beginning to yield results. This is 

the Institute’s first full year under our new Director, 

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Victor Bulmer-Thomas, who reports in detail elsewhere. 

It is particularly gratifying to see the notable progress 

that has resulted from the appointment of a dedicated 

Director of Development. 

Over the past year, Chatham House has maintained its 

reputation for attracting first-class speakers on an 

eclectic range of subjects. We have welcomed heads 

of state, government ministers, politicians, business 

leaders, journalists and academics from Britain and 

around the world to 100 general meetings. They have 

included President Mbeki of South Africa; President 

Kucan of Slovenia; President Mesic of Croatia; Prime 

Minister Lipponen of Finland; President Adamkus of 

Lithuania; Lord Robertson, Secretary-General of NATO; 

the Hon Donald Tsang, Chief Secretary of Hong Kong; 

the Rt Hon Donald McKinnon, Commonwealth 

Secretary-General; and no fewer than seven overseas 

foreign ministers. In July, the Rt Hon Jack Straw MP 

chose Chatham House as the platform for his first 

major speech outside parliament as Secretary of 

State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. He was 

followed, in October, by the Secretary of State for 

Trade and Industry, the Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP. 

The Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, Leader of the 

Opposition, addressed the Institute in January. 

Significantly, ten separate meetings on the 

international response to global terrorism were 

arranged in the aftermath of 11 September. 

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As ever, the scope and speed of progress are dictated by 

financial standing. Needless to say, the vital task of 

improving the Institute’s finances commands relentless 

attention. If we are able, as planned, to come close to 

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break-even in the current financial year, a significant 

turnaround will have been achieved. 

As you will see from the Director’s report, the Institute 

is committed, within its means, to an energetic 

programme of growth and innovation, designed to 

deliver greater value to a wider membership. The last 

12 months have seen the Chatham House team become 

galvanized under effective new leadership, and I have 

every confidence that we will succeed in this objective. 

My thanks go to Victor Bulmer-Thomas and his staff for 

their continued dedication to the best interests of 

Chatham House. I must also record my appreciation for 

the support and guidance of my fellow Council members. 

The principal assets of this Institute are its people. 

Marshall of Knightsbridge 

BACKGROUND: The Rt Hon John Prescott MP, Deputy Prime Minister, 

HE Thabo Mbeki and Lord Marshall at the June 2001 general meeting held 

at the House of Commons. 

FOREGROUND: The Rt Hon Jack Straw MP and Lord Marshall. 

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DIRECTOR’S REVIEW 

BACKGROUND: Victor Bulmer-Thomas with Lord Marshall and the Rt Hon 

Patricia Hewitt MP; with the Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP; and chairing the 

Fourth John C Whitehead Lecture on Anglo-American Relations addressed by 

The Lord Browne of Madingley, Group Chief Executive, BP plc. 

FOREGROUND: Victor Bulmer-Thomas with the Rt Hon Lord Robertson 

of Port Ellen, Secretary-General of NATO and a President of RIIA. 

... the response of staff and 

Associate Fellows to the 

tragic events on and after 11 

September ... demonstrated 

clearly the need for an 

independent think-tank 

capable of careful reflection 

and considered analysis. 

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This is the second time I have written a review for the 

Annual Report. It is also the end of my first year as 

Director. It has been a demanding time, but at the 

same time it has given me confidence that Chatham 

House can rise to the challenges ahead. This was 

brought home with particular force by the response of 

staff and Associate Fellows to the tragic events on and 

after 11 September, which demonstrated clearly the 

need for an independent think-tank capable of careful 

reflection and considered analysis. 

In my review last year I looked ahead and mapped out 

a series of tasks that I felt were essential to secure the 

future for Chatham House. They were rebuilding our 

research base, strengthening our links with other 

research centres, modernization of what we do, 

improving the way in which we put our message 

across, and bringing in new members. This review 

provides an opportunity to assess the extent to which 

we have succeeded in meeting those tasks. 

Rebuilding the research base has occupied a great 

deal of our time. The European Programme has been 

enlarged, the Energy and Environment Programme 

has changed its name to the Sustainable Development 

Programme and staffing levels in the International 

Economics Programme have been increased. In 

addition, we took the decision to launch five new 

programmes over the next two to three years. Three of 

these will be regional (Africa, Asia and the Americas) 

and two thematic (New Security Issues and 

International Law). 

Raising the funding necessary for these new 

programmes will be time-consuming, but good 

progress has already been made. This has been made 

easier by the appointment of Tariq Sadiq as Director of 

Development; he has thrown himself into this task with 

energy and enthusiasm. As a result, we expect both 

the Africa Programme and the Asia Programme to be 

launched this year. 

We have also taken important steps towards the 

creation of an Americas Programme. This has three 

components — South America, the Caribbean and 

North America. Research on South America is being 

carried out through our MERCOSUR study group, and 

in early 2002 we launched a new study group on the

wider Caribbean, looking at policy options over the 

next five years. We have also started a United States 

Discussion Group with regular meetings addressed by 

visiting speakers. In time, we hope to appoint a Head 

of Americas Programme to coordinate the work of the 

three components and expand the research done by 

each one. 

We have also made progress in the second task — links 

with research centres. With the Centre of International 

Studies at Cambridge University, we have put together 

a proposal for joint work on China in three areas: 

economics, the environment and security. Sufficient 

funding has been secured to allow us to start the 

project and we hope to have the first research staff in 

post by the end of the year, with the person appointed 

to Chatham House heading up our Asia Programme. 

We have also begun conversations with colleges of 

London University on the possibility of joint initiatives 

in the area of postgraduate teaching. This will be a 

completely new venture for Chatham House and one 

that opens up exciting possibilities. 

Modernization of what we do is taking many forms. 

Our new website was launched in April and members 

now have their own dedicated zone, which gives them 

privileged access to Chatham House products. We 

have also created a new category of web member for 

those unable to attend Chatham House in person. Last 

but not least, we have undertaken the refurbishment 

of the fourth floor where many of our research staff 

and administrators are located. This work will be 

finished in early October, and we hope to do the same 

to the third floor in 2004. 

Improving the way we put our message across has 

been a constant theme. The regular parliamentary 

briefings have become an important vehicle of 

communication between research staff and MPs. The 

monthly Newsletter was launched in October, and 

members have been very appreciative of its new 

format and content. The relaunched website will also 

be crucial to our efforts in this area. Our Briefing 

Papers are now produced by individual research 

programmes, rather than under central direction, and 

we hope this will lead to a closer targeting of the 

relevant audience. We also carried out a re-imaging 

exercise with new letterheads, business cards and 

publication designs. 

In order to bring in new members, we strengthened 

the membership department and now have staff 

dedicated to recruiting both corporate and individual 

members. We have been successful in attracting 

additional major corporate members as well as new 

individual members, but less so in attracting new 

standard corporate members. This is an area where we 

will have to work very hard in future. During the year 

we held two receptions for new members, including a 

tour of the library, and these were much appreciated 

by those who attended. 

Completing this agenda will take time and cannot 

be done in one year. A teaching programme, for 

example, could not start before 2003/4 at the 

earliest and it will take several years before all the 

new research programmes are fully established. 

New ideas are under consideration all the time, 

many of them emanating from staff or Council 

members. All this makes my job very rewarding, but 

we must guard against becoming overstretched. 

Our resources — physical, financial and human — are 

limited and our first duty is to make the best use of 

what we already have. 

Last year I ended my review by paying tribute to the 

quality of the staff at Chatham House. I would like to 

end by doing so again. Staff have responded 

magnificently to the changes introduced over the past 

year, and the forces of inertia which one might expect 

to be a significant barrier in a long-established 

institution such as Chatham House have not been 

apparent. We have lost a few valued members of staff 

during the year, but we have recruited others who 

have been quick to bring new ideas and energy to this 

much-loved and prestigious institution. 

Professor V Bulmer-Thomas 


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CORE RESEARCH PROGRAMMES 

At a time of growing uncertainty and instability, the 

Institute continues to be a focus for leading-edge 

thinking, research and analysis on key international 

developments. Our five core research programmes, 

which have brought expertise and insight to major 

issues of interest and concern, continue to exemplify 

the strengths of Chatham House. 

European Programme 

The European Programme expanded during the year 

with the arrival of Mariana Tsatsas as an Associate 

Fellow working on European institutions and the 

bilateral relations of the UK. Julie Smith became 

(almost) full-time Programme Head from January 2002, 

having taken leave from the University of Cambridge. 

Two significant publications during the year were The 

New Bilateralism: The UK’s Relations Within the EU, 

by Julie Smith and Mariana Tsatsas, and Spreading the 

Costs of Asylum Seekers: A Critical Assessment of 

Dispersal Policies in Germany and the UK, by Christina 

Boswell (published by the Anglo-German Foundation). 

The programme also convened a series of seminars on 

‘Insiders and Outsiders in the New Europe’ to present 

work in progress, which will lead to a publication in 

late 2002. 

The programme held a large number of seminars on 

issues associated with EU enlargement, and a series 

of seminars on the future of NATO in conjunction with 

International Affairs and the Centre for Studies in 

Security and Diplomacy at the University of 

Birmingham. We also organized a variety of bilateral 

and multilateral workshops in partnership with sister 

institutes from other European countries and the 

United States. 

Contact: Laura Hamilton 

E-mail: lhamilton@riia.org 

International Economics Programme 

The International Economics Programme undertakes 

research into key themes including financial 

development, growth and poverty alleviation, and 

international trade. 

Its seminar series has provided opportunities for 

government, industry, academia and non- 


governmental organizations to share their expertise. 

Distinguished speakers have included Professor 

Jeffrey Frankel from Harvard University, Professor 

Charles Goodhart from the LSE, Boris Fedorov, the 

former Russian Finance Minister, and Dr Heizo 

Takanaka, Minister of State for Economics and Fiscal 

Policy, Japan. The programme has also been a forum 

for information and debate on the WTO ministerial 

meeting in Doha. 

The July conference entitled ‘The 

Economics of Essential Medicines’ 

stimulated intense discussion on 

making essential medicines available 

in developing countries. Issues 

included the impact of Trade-Related 

Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights 

(TRIPS), health service delivery, and 

research and development. A volume based 

on the conference, edited by Brigitte Granville, will be 

published by the RIIA in summer 2002. 

At this year’s Tokyo Club Foundation for Global Studies 

T5 meeting in Paris, Brigitte Granville and Carol 

Leonard presented their paper entitled ‘The Digital 

Divide, Local Learning and Innovation in the Developing 

World: The Remarkable Case of Pharmaceuticals’. 

The programme is one of five leading research 

organizations to take part in this annual meeting. 

Contact: Joann Fong E-mail: jfong@riia.org 

Middle East Programme 

At a time of increased violence and uncertainty in 

the region, the Middle East Programme (MEP) has 

responded to unfolding developments, especially 

the impact of 11 September, the intensification of the 

Israeli—Palestinian conflict and the regional 

implications of the ‘war on terrorism’. The programme’s 

briefing seminars engaged the corporate sector in a 

series of debates and we are preparing research on the 

future of Iraq and the reaction of Saudi Arabia. MEP 

fellows have contributed numerous interviews and 

articles to the media. 

Among policy dialogue projects, the programme 

continued its focus on relations with Iran at a seminar 

in Tehran and introduced a new venture on improving 

relations with Libya. Another new project, ‘Rethinking

the Middle East: Strategic Perspectives from Egypt, Iran 

and Turkey’, was launched at a seminar in Alexandria 

with partner institutions from the three countries. 

Work has progressed on the ‘Islah (Reform)’ project on 

perceptions of good governance among Palestinians 

and Jordanians, and on the partnership with the Centre 

for Lebanese Studies on the Palestinian refugee issue in 

the quest for Middle East peace. The programme held a 

symposium on ‘Priorities and Parameters for Energy in 

the Gulf’ with the Crown Prince Court, Abu Dhabi and 

published Globalization and the Middle East: Islam, 

Economy, Society and Politics, edited by Toby Dodge 

and Richard Higgott. In partnership with the 

International Peace Academy, MEP organized a major 

seminar entitled ‘UN Sanctions: Theory and Practice’. 

Contact: Robert Lowe E-mail: rlowe@riia.org 

Russia and Eurasia Programme 

The Russia and Eurasia Programme (REP) has again 

made a major contribution to understanding the Central 

Asian and Caspian region. It organized a pathbreaking 

bilateral seminar in Dushanbe on prospects for 

Tajikistan and held meetings at Chatham House on the 

stability of the Central Asian states in the context of the 

current situation and future of Afghanistan. The 

programme also published important monographs on 

Tajikistan and on Islam in CIS. 

In the final seminar of a major MacArthur Foundation 

project, senior Russian military and Ministry of Internal 

Affairs officers discussed with their Western 

counterparts terrorism and insurgency in Central Asia 

and future areas of cooperation. A particular focus has 

been on the political, economic and energy policies of 

the southern countries of the CIS and their impact on 

Western interests, with REP staff active in discussions 

on national and international television and radio. 

The programme’s analysis of Russian politics, economic 

progress and foreign policy has been assisted by visits 

of politicians, business people and analysts. A new 

project on Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian responses 

to the European Security and Defence Policy forms 

part of a broader investigation on avoiding dividing 

lines in Europe and building on the growing spirit 

of cooperation. 

Contact: James Nixey E-mail: jnixey@riia.org 

Sustainable Development Programme 

As acknowledgement of its steady expansion, our 

long-established Energy and Environment Programme 

changed its name to the Sustainable Development 

Programme. Its growth has included work on issues 

beyond the original focus and includes fields such as 

corporate responsibility, trade and environment, and 

international environmental crime. Alongside these 

new areas of work, the Programme has continued its 

work on energy issues (global oil and gas, electricity, 

nuclear and renewable sources) and climate change. 

The Programme’s activities are now organized under 

the four key areas of energy, environment, climate 

change and corporate responsibility. 

The wide range of topics covered in workshops and 

meetings throughout the year included Asian oil, 

technology transfer, international financial 

institutions, European energy and gas, biodiversity, 

the international climate change regime, the future 

of nuclear energy, and the UK’s Energy Policy Review. 

The programme has also facilitated the UK 

government’s Sustainable Tourism Initiative. 

In addition to numerous briefing papers and 

reports, publications have included The Fuel Tax 

Protests in Europe, 2000-2001, Technology Transfer 

for Renewable Energy: Overcoming Barriers in 

Developing Countries, and The Cartagena Protocol: 

Reconciling Trade in Biotechnology with Environment 

and Development? 

Contact: Kate Kinsman E-mail: kkinsman@riia.org 

BACKGROUND: Dr Mai Yamani, Associate Fellow, Middle East Programme, 

at a Chatham House Parliamentary Briefing Group. 

Prince al Hassan of Jordan. 

Symposium with Crown Prince Court, Abu Dhabi. 

Russia and Eurasia Programme seminar addressed by Dr Gennady Zyuganov, 

Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian 

Federation. 

FOREGROUND: Dr Heizo Takenaka, Minister of State for Economics, Japan 

addresses an International Economics Programme seminar. 


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OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITY 

Asia-Pacific Technology Network 

The Asia-Pacific Technology Network (APTN) has 

continued to work in alliance with RIIA within the 

general area of Asian technology. 

The network organized the 16th annual UK-Japan 

High Technology Industry Forum, which was held 

in Manchester and involved high-level Japanese 

delegates from firms such as Sony, Toshiba, 

Matsushita, and NTT DoCoMo. 

APTN also organized the 2nd UK-Korea High 

Technology Industry Forum, held in Bristol. Lord 

Sainsbury led for the British side. The Korean 

delegation consisted of around 50 executives and 

officials from companies such as Samsung, LG Elite, 

SK Telecom and Hyundai Syscom. 

The network ran nearly 20 seminars within the 

Asia-Pacific Technology Seminar series and grouped 

around three major themes — Asian Pharmaceuticals 

(organized with Global Outsourcing Review), Asian 

Electronics and Japanese Structural Reform 

(with the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation). 

Contact: Louis Turner E-mail: louist@riia.org 

British-Angola Forum 

The British-Angola Forum (BAF) held its first 

international conference in September 2001 on 

‘Western Foreign Policy towards Angola’. The 

conference attracted over 270 people and included 

speakers from Angola, Europe, the US and the UK. A 

report of the conference is available. 

The BAF has continued to expand its corporate and 

general membership. Corporate sponsors include 

Arthur D Little, BP, BAE Systems, ChevronTexaco, CNR 

(UK) Ltd, Cooper Cameron, De Beers, De La Rue, 

ExxonMobil, HSBC Equator Bank, Hull Blyth Group, 

Pereira de Miranda, Correia and Amondeira, Shell 

International, and Standard Chartered Bank. 

In the past year the seminar series has covered topics 

ranging from peace-building and reconciliation to the 

plight of Angola’s bushmen population. Most recently 

the BAF hosted the UK visit of Paulo Jorge, Secretary 

of the Political Bureau for International Relations, 


MPLA. Professor Gerald Bender and Manuel Augusto, 

Deputy Minister of Information, also spoke at 

the Forum. 

Recent political events have given rise to hopes that 

Angola may now be on the road to a sustainable peace. 

This and other topics were covered at meetings hosted 

for the Angolan Foreign Minister, João Bernardo 

Miranda, who spoke about his government’s Plan 

for Peace. 

Contact: Teresa O’Shannassy 

E-mail: teresa.baf@riia.org 

Caribbean Study Group 

This new Study Group was set up in January 2002, 

chaired by Gordon Baker, former British High 

Commissioner to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean. 

The group plans to commission and publish a series of 

studies on the political, economic and social impact of 

globalization on the Caribbean region. 

Subsequent studies will cover crime and regional 

security, governance, regionalization, migration and 

other social factors, and the environment. This 

programme will be carried out in collaboration with 

the North-South Center at the University of Miami, 

and the group is hoping to encourage contributions 

from institutions in the Caribbean. 

It is also hoped that the group will act as a forum 

for visiting regional leaders and experts. Cable & 

Wireless and the Le Poer PowerTrust have pledged 

generous financial support to the group, which will 

become part of the developing Americas Programme 

at Chatham House. 

Contact: Linda Bedford E-mail: lbedford@riia.org 

China Discussion Group 

The China Discussion Group (CDG) is an informal 

group of business people, journalists, academics and 

others, united by a keen interest in contemporary 

China. The group meets monthly for a lunchtime 

90-minute talk and discussion, thanks to the kind 

support of Schroders. The CDG is chaired by Professor 

David Wall and convened by Stephen Green, both 

Associate Fellows, RIIA.

This year’s programme has ranged widely. Michael 

Dillon from Durham University has spoken on Xinjiang 

province and what America’s ‘war on terrorism’ means 

for the area, and Lou Jianbo from Cambridge has 

examined the crippling bad debt problems of China’s 

state banks. 

In March Li Luoli, director of the China Development 

Institute (CDI) in Shenzhen, spoke on the state of 

foreign direct investment in China. Other meetings 

have discussed the integration of Hong Kong with 

Southern China, the rise of Chinese nationalism and 

the current situation in Tibet. 

Contact: Stephen Green E-mail: cdg@riia.org 

Japan Discussion Group 

The Japan Discussion Group has continued its monthly 

meetings thanks to the generous support of the Great 

Britain Sasakawa Foundation. The meetings, convened 

by Dr Christopher Hood (Associate Fellow, RIIA and 

Director, Cardiff Japanese Studies Centre, University of 

Wales at Cardiff), are usually attended by around 

20 people. After a presentation on an important theme 

relating to Japan, there is a roundtable discussion. 

Topics this year have included the continuing economic 

problems in Japan, Japanese energy policy, and the 

electoral systems in Britain and Japan. From time to 

time, the group is expanded for larger discussions, in 

collaboration with other programmes at Chatham 

House or with external organizations such as JETRO. 

At one of these events we welcomed as speaker 

Dr Heizo Takenaka, Japanese Minister for Economic 

Trade and Industry. 

Contact: Christopher Hood 

E-mail: HoodCP@Cardiff.ac.uk 

Latin America Projects 

Project work on Latin America (LAP), re-introduced 

at Chatham House in October 2000, will eventually 

be integrated into the new Americas Programme. 

Currently LAP is examining prospects for MERCOSUR 

(the Common Market of South America), including its 

external relations with the rest of the Americas and the 

European Union. The project is coordinated by Mike 

Mecham, on secondment from the British government, 

and includes Professor José Augusto Guilhon 

Albuquerque, a Visiting Fellow from the University of 

Saõ Paulo supported by the Brazilian government. 

In September 2001, LAP established a MERCOSUR 

Study Group, chaired by Professor Victor Bulmer- 

Thomas with representatives from MERCOSUR and 

EU governments, business, academia and NGOs. As 

well as briefings, conferences and plans for a major 

publication, the group has started a series of monthly 

theme-based workshops, which cover political and 

defence cooperation, economic, trade, regulatory 

and social developments, and an examination of the 

external agenda. The initial phase of the work is 

expected to run until 2003. 

Chatham House is an active participant in the 

EU-Latin America Forum organized by the Institute 

of Strategic and International Studies in Lisbon. 

We are also associated with the EU-MERCOSUR 

project of Chaire MERCOSUR at Sciences Po in Paris. 

Contact: Mike Mecham 

E-mail: mmecham@riia.org 

United States Discussion Group 

As part of a developing research programme on the 

Americas, Chatham House has established a new 

United States Discussion Group (USDG), chaired by 

Professor Michael Cox of the University of Wales at 

Aberystwyth. The USDG invites leading experts in US 

studies to look at a range of issues affecting the 

transatlantic relationship. The first meetings were on 

‘Homeland Security’ and America’s perception of its 

role abroad. 

The Institute’s aim is to develop the USDG into a Study 

Group with research activities and events taking place 

on both sides of the Atlantic. Together with the 

Caribbean and the MERCOSUR Study Groups, it will 

form the core of a new Americas programme that will 

encompass research on the whole region. 

Contact: Sacha Tan E-mail: stan@riia.org 

BACKGROUND: Participants at a British-Angola Forum seminar on the future 

of Angola’s foreign policy. 


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CONFERENCES 

Through its collaboration with the research 

programmes, the Conference Unit continues to 

organize topical international events which bring 

together key figures from business, government, 

NGOs and academia, raising the profile and the 

income of the Institute. 

The well-established annual Chatham House defence 

conference was opened by a widely publicized 

Conferences — Keynote speakers and sponsors 

26-27.4.01 Borderless Trading 2001 

Organized in association with the Federation 

of European Stock Exchanges (FESE) and the 

International Federation of Stock Exchanges 

(FIBV) 

Keynote Speakers included: 

Don Cruickshank, Chairman, London Stock 

Exchange 

Brian Williamson, Chairman, LIFFE 

Stanley W Shelton, Executive Vice President, 

State Street Global Markets 

Dr Bengt Rydén, Member, Committee of Wise Men 

on the Regulation of European Securities Markets, 

European Union and Member of the Board, OM 

Group AB 

Gay Wisbey, Director, Markets and Exchanges 

Division, Financial Services Authority 

6-7.6.01 Defeating Corruption and Economic 

Crime 

Organized in association with Control Risks Group 

and Transparency International (UK) 


Professor Mark Pieth, Chairman, OECD Working 

Group on Bribery, University of Basel, Switzerland 

Carol Sergeant, Managing Director, Risk 

Regulatory Process and Risk Directorate, 

Financial Services Authority, UK 

8.6.01 Corruption Workshop: 

Meeting the Corruption Challenge in 

Complex Environments 


18-19.6.01 Post New Economy: Trends, Forces 

and Impacts Around the Globe 

1-2.10.01 Delivering Kyoto: Could Europe Do It? 


Dr Robert T Watson, Director for Environment and 

Head of the Environment Sector Board, World 

Bank, and Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on 

Climate Change 

Michael Zammit Cutajar, Executive Secretary, 

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate 

Change — Secretariat 

Kjell Larsson, Minister of Environment, Sweden 

15-16.10.01 Corporate Social Responsibility: 

From Words to Action 


and the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable 

Development Project 


Bruce Jenks, Director, Bureau for Resources and 

Strategic Partnerships, United Nations 


keynote speech by the Rt Hon Lord Robertson, 

Secretary-General of NATO, while the participation of 

Ed Balls, Chief Economics Adviser to the Chancellor of 

the Exchequer, at the euro conference also drew high 

levels of media coverage. Reacting quickly to the events 

of 11 September, the Institute arranged two conferences 

to address the threatened crisis in energy security and 

the impact of the events on the Middle East. 

Development Programme 

Sir Robert Wilson , Chairman, Rio Tinto plc 

Dr James W Buckee, President and Chief Executive 

Officer, Talisman Energy Inc 

Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics 

Commentator, Financial Times 

17.10.01 Business and Conflict: 

Cause or Solution? 

A Corporate Responsibility Scenario Workshop 


5-6.11.01 The Future of European 

Asset Management 


Lindsay Tomlinson, Chief Executive Officer, 

Barclays Global Investors, Europe 

Jørgen Elmeskov, Chairman, Editorial Board, 

OECD Economic Studies 

Donald H Brydon OBE, Chairman and 

Chief Executive, AXA Investment Managers 

Nigel Wightman, Managing Director UK, 

State Street Global Advisors 

19-20.11.01 Regulating Tomorrow’s 

Insurance Industry 

Organized in association with Reactions magazine 

Insurance 


Dr Markus Diethelm, Chief Legal Officer, 

Swiss Reinsurance Company 

Graham Doswell, Chief Executive, Ecclesiastical 

Insurance Group 

Frits Bolkestein, Member of the European 

Commission 

Patrick O’Sullivan, Chief Executive, UK General 

Insurance, Zurich Financial Services (UKISA) 

Limited 

23.11.01 Legal Dimensions of 

Corporate Social Responsibility 

4-5.12.01 Competition in Electricity Markets: 

Deregulation, the Environment and 

Security of Supply 

Organized in association with The Global 

Foundation 

11-12.2.02 European Pensions 


Ian Macartney MP, Minister of State for Pensions, 

UK 

Ulrike Mascher, Parliamentary State Secretary, 

Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, 

Germany

New conference topics this year included the 

pharmaceutical industry, the regulation of the insurance 

industry and, as a continuation of the corporate social 

responsibility series, legal dimensions of corporate 

responsibility. As highly successful ventures which 

forged relationships in new business and policy areas, 

these conferences look set to be repeated next year. 

Contact: Georgina Wright E-mail: gwright@riia.org 

18-19.2.02 Europe and America 


The Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, 

Secretary-General, NATO 

Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon KBE 

General The Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank GCB LVO 

OBE, Former Chief of Defence Staff, UK 

Lisa Bronson US Deputy Under Secretary of 

Defense, Technology Security Policy and 

Counterproliferation and Director, Defense 

Technology Security Administration 

25-26.2.02 Banking on the Euro 


Sirkka Hämäläinen, Member of the Executive 

Board, European Central Bank 

Leszek Balcerowicz, President, National Bank 

of Poland 

Professor Anne O Krueger, First Deputy Managing 

Director, International Monetary Fund 

14-15.3.02 The Pharmaceutical Industry 


Sir Richard Sykes, Chairman, GlaxoSmithKline plc 

and Rector, Imperial College of Science, 

Technology and Medicine 

Dr Beatrice Wabudeya, Minister of State for Health 

(Primary Health Care), Government of Uganda 

Professor Paul Herrling, Head of Research, 

Novartis Pharma AG 

18-19.3.02 Energy Security: New Era, 

New Governance 


Dr Gavin Graham, Senior Regional Adviser, 

Middle East & CIS, Shell International 

Ambassador William C Ramsay, Deputy Executive 

Director, International Energy Agency, Paris 

The Rt Hon Michael Meacher MP, Minister of State 

for Environment, Department for Environment, 

Food and Rural Affairs 

Boris Fedorov, Board Member, Gazprom and 

Sberbank of Russia; former Russian Deputy 

Prime Minister & Finance Minister 

20.3.02 9/11 and the Middle East 


Prince Abdullah Faisal Turki Alsaud, Chairman, 

Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority 

Conference Sponsors 

A M Best 

APCO 

BRIDGE, Trading Technologies Inc 

British Airways plc 

BrokerTec 

Climate Strategies 

Defence, Ministry of 

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 

Department for 

Diageo 

Foreign & Commonwealth Office 

FOW 

France, Embassy of 

Instinet 

International Development, Department for 

LIFFE 

Merck, Sharp and Dohme 

Novartis 

Oliver Wyman & Company 

Reactions 

Rio Tinto plc 

SAM 

Standard and Poors 

State Street Bank and Trust Company 

Trade & Industry, Department of 

Unilever plc 

BACKGROUND: Sir John Birch, Member of Council, RIIA, with HE Stjepan 

Mesic, President of the Republic of Croatia. 

Saira Shah, broadcaster, discusses her Channel 4 programme ‘Beneath 

the Veil’ 

Lincoln P Bloomfield Jr, US Assistant Secretary for Political and 

Military Affairs. 

Lisa Bronson, US Deputy Under Secretary of Defence leads a panel 

discussion. 

Dr Brigitte Granville, Head, International Economics Programme, RIIA, 

chairs a discussion panel that included Ed Balls, Chief Economics Adviser to 

the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Anatole Kaletsky, Associate Editor, 

The Times. 

FOREGROUND 1: Stephanie Ayers, Director, Defence Practice, APCO Europe. 

FOREGROUND 2: Dr Beatrice Wabudeya, Minister of State for Health, Uganda. 

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MEETINGS PROGRAMME 

Speakers of 32 different nationalities, including six 

presidents, five foreign ministers and two prime 

ministers, took part in the 99 meetings during the 

year. Chatham House was chosen by the Rt Hon Jack 

Straw MP as the venue for his first major speech 

outside parliament as Secretary of State for Foreign 

and Commonwealth Affairs and by the Rt Hon Iain 

Duncan Smith MP for his first speech on foreign affairs 

as Leader of the Opposition. Other speakers included 

the Secretaries-General of both NATO and the 

Meetings April 2001 - March 2002 

2.4.01 The cash nexus: finance, international 

relations and globalization in long-term 

perspective 

Jointly held with the International Economics 

Programme, RIIA 

PROFESSOR NIALL FERGUSON 

Professor of Political & Financial History, Jesus 

College, Oxford; author, The Cash Nexus: Money and 

Power in the Modern World, 2001 

2.4.01 Croatia on the road to the EU: 

Stabilization and Association Agreement 

(Round-table) 

NEVEN MIMICA 

Chief Negotiator for Croatia’s Stabilization and 

Association Agreement with the EU 

3.4.01 Macedonia 

PROFESSOR JAMES PETTIFER 

Visiting Professor, Institute of Balkan Studies, 

University of Thessalonika 

Discussants: 

RICHARD DAVY 

Former East European Correspondent, The Times 

GABRIEL PARTOS 

BBC World Service South East Europe Analyst 

9.4.01 A new stage of Russian development: 

challenges and constraints 

PROFESSOR LILIA SHEVTSOVA 

Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for 

International Peace, Moscow 

11.4.01 One country, two media: how the 

Hong Kong press has fared since the 

hand-over 

JONATHAN FENBY CBE 

Editor, South China Morning Post and Sunday Morning 

Post, Hong Kong, 1995-99 

30.4.01 American foreign policy: the first 100 days 

— where next? 

DR ROBERT McGEEHAN 

Institute of United States Studies, 

University of London 

JAMES P RUBIN 

Former Assistant Secretary of State and Senior 

Adviser to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright 


Commonwealth and the European Commissioner for 

Regional Policy. 

The programme included thematic series of meetings 

on interrelated issues — notably, after 11 September, 

on the international response to global terrorism and 

the management of the transatlantic relationship — as 

well as a number of lively panel discussion meetings 

and debates. 

Contact: Heather Weeks E-mail: meetings@riia.org 

2.5.01 Rwanda seven years after the genocide: 

progress and prospects — how can the 

international community help? 

Joint meeting with the Royal African 

Society 

BILL GRAY 

Programme Officer for the Great Lakes Region, 

Save the Children 

LINDA MELVERN 

Investigative journalist; author, A People Betrayed: 

the Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide 

HE MRS ROSEMARY MUSEMINALI 

Ambassador of Rwanda to the Court of St James’s 

Moderator: 

MARTIN PLAUT 

BBC World Service 

4.5.01 Palestine and Israel: conflict or peace? 

DR KHALIL SHIKAKI 

Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and 

Survey Research, Ramallah 

8.5.01 Ornamentalism: how the British saw their 

empire 

PROFESSOR DAVID CANNADINE 

Director, Institute of Historical Research, and 

Professor of History, University of London; author, 

Ornamentalism: How the British Saw their Empire 

(May 2001) 

14.5.01 Globalization and its discontents 

THE HON JOSEPH S NYE JR 

Dean, John F Kennedy School of Government, 

Harvard University; Chairman, National Intelligence 

Council, 1993-94; Assistant Secretary of Defense for 

International Security Affairs, 1994-95 

16.5.01 Ten years of transition in the CIS: are the 

newly independent states on the way to 

sustainable democracy? 

AMBASSADOR GERARD STOUDMANN 

Director, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions 

and Human Rights, Warsaw

17.5.01 Russian reform from Yeltsin to Putin: 

where is it heading? 



PROFESSOR PADMA DESAI 

Director, Center for Transitional Economies, 

Columbia University, New York; author, incl. 

Work Without Wages: Russia’s Nonpayment 

Crisis (2000) 

22.5.01 China’s economy and the WTO 

SUN XIAOYU 

Vice President of the Development Research Center 

of the State Council of China 

23.5.01 Montenegro: prospects after the election 

HE MILO DJUKANOVIC 

President, Republic of Montenegro since 1997 

24.5.01 The trauma of war and its legacy: 

rebuilding civil society in Angola 

Joint meeting with the Royal African 

Society and the British – Angola Forum 

ANNA RICHARDSON 

Freelance journalist writing about Angola: based in 

Luanda, 1998-2000; previously Angola 

correspondent, BBC & Reuters 

30.5.01 Still punching above our weight? 

Non-partisan views of British foreign policy 

SIMON JENKINS 

Columnist, former Editor, The Times 

DAME PAULINE NEVILLE-JONES DCMG 

A Governor, BBC; former Political Director, FCO 

PROFESSOR ADAM ROBERTS FBA 

Montague Burton Professor of International Relations 

and Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford 

31.5.01 Has the US inherited the imperial mantle? 

Current implications for relationships with 

the Third World 

THE HON DAVID NEWSOM 

Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, 

Department of State, Washington, 1978-81; former 

Ambassador to Libya, Indonesia and Philippines; 

Interim Dean, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown 

University, 1995-96 

4.6.01 Estimating the effect of currency unions 

on trade and output 



PROFESSOR JEFFREY FRANKEL 

Harpel Professor, John F Kennedy School of 

Government, Harvard University 

5.6.01 Talking pounds and sense on South Africa 

TONY LEON 

Leader, Democratic Alliance official opposition party, 

Republic of South Africa 

11.6.01 European defence: prospects 

and challenges 

Joint meeting with the Journal of 

Common Market Studies 

THE RT HON LORD ROBERTSON OF 

PORT ELLEN 

Secretary-General of NATO since 1999; Secretary of 

State for Defence, 1997-99 

14.6.01 South Africa 

Meeting jointly hosted with the Rt Hon John 

Prescott MP, Deputy Prime Minister, and 

Baroness Amos, Minister of State, FCO 

HE THABO MBEKI 

President, Republic of South Africa 

(Joint chairmen: THE RT HON JOHN PRESCOTT 

MP & LORD MARSHALL OF KNIGHTSBRIDGE) 

20.6.01 What kind of nation is Russia? 

PROFESSOR GEOFFREY HOSKING 

Leverhulme Personal Research Professor, School of 

Slavonic & East European Studies, University of 

London; author, Russia and the Russians: A History, 

June 2001 

21.6.01 Europe and the US: past and future 

Fourth C Douglas Dillon Lecture on European- 

American Relations 

THE HON THOMAS PICKERING 

Senior Vice President International Affairs, The 

Boeing Company; previously Under Secretary of State 

for Political Affairs, US Department of State, 

Permanent Representative to the UN and 

Ambassador in Moscow 

22.6.01 The Zimbabwe crisis — today and 

tomorrow 

EDDIE CROSS 

Secretary for Economic Affairs, Movement for 

Democratic Change, Zimbabwe 

25.6.01 Italy under Berlusconi 

DR DAVID HINE 

Fellow in Politics, Christ Church, Oxford; 

co-author, with Salvatore Vassallo, Italy: The Return 

of Politics, 2000 

28.6.01 Britain and the euro: the case for and the 

case against 

Jointly held with the European Programme and 

the International Economics Programme, RIIA to 

launch a project on the implications of the UK’s 

choices on euro membership 

LORD HASKINS 

Chairman, Northern Foods plc 

RUTH LEA 

Head of Policy Unit, Institute of Directors 

4.7.01 Yugoslavia after Milosevic 

HE DR VLADETA JANKOVIC 

Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 

to the Court of St James’s 

5.7.01 Syria’s foreign policy 

HE FAROUK AL-SHARA’ 

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Syrian Arab Republic 

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5.7.01 New leaders and policies in the Maghreb 

PROFESSOR REMY LEVEAU 

Professor of International Relations, Institut 

d’Etudes Politiques, Paris; adviser on the Arab and 

Muslim world, Institut Français des Relations 

Internationales; author 

6.7.01 After Nice: perspectives for the future 

of Europe 

MICHEL BARNIER 

Commissioner for Regional Policy, 

European Commission 

12.7.01 Japanese security policy and missile 

defence 

DR CHRISTOPHER HUGHES 

Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of 

Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of 

Warwick 

12.7.01 Inside the pariah state: a journey through 

the Taliban’s Afghanistan 

SAIRA SHAH 

Freelance reporter and broadcaster; her programme 

for Channel 4 under the title Beneath the Veil 

following a 6-week stay in Afghanistan was shown 

on 26 June 

13.7.01 President Khatami’s second term: 

what does it mean for Iran and the rest 

of the world? 

BAQER MOIN 

Head, Persian/Pashto Service, BBC World Service; 

author, Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah (2000) 

27.7.01 A Europe for its citizens 

THE RT HON JACK STRAW MP 

Secretary of State for Foreign and 

Commonwealth Affairs 

10.9.01 Where geography is not destiny — the 

wider Caribbean in the 21st century 

Inaugural Lecture 

PROFESSOR VICTOR BULMER-THOMAS OBE 

Director, RIIA 

17.9.01 Annual General Meeting 

19.9.01 A discussion of the G8 Renewable Energy 

Task Force 

Jointly held with the Energy and Environment 


SIR MARK MOODY-STUART KCMG 

Co-Chairman, G8 Task Force on Renewable Energy; 

Group Managing Director, 1991-June 2001, and Royal 

Dutch/Shell Group Chairman, Committee of Managing 

Directors, 1998-June 2001, 

21.9.01 Managing UN reform: 

UNIDO’s need-driven approach 

CARLOS A MAGARIÑOS 

Director-General, United Nations Industrial 

Development Organization (UNIDO); Secretary of 

State for Mining and Industry, Argentina, 1993-96 

27.9.01 European defence 

Joint meeting with the Naval & Military Club 

SIR MICHAEL QUINLAN GCB 

Director, The Ditchley Foundation , 1992-99; 

Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of 

Defence, 1988-92 


3.10.01 International terrorism: global 

implications and national responses 

DR ALI ANSARI 

Associate Fellow, RIIA 

PROFESSOR VICTOR BULMER-THOMAS OBE 

Director, RIIA 

SIR TIMOTHY GARDEN KCB 

Associate Fellow, formerly Director, RIIA 

DR MAI YAMANI 

Associate Fellow, Middle East Programme, RIIA 

8.10.01 South Africa’s draft Mineral Development 

Bill: the implications for property rights 

and for foreign direct investment 

Jointly held with the Southern Africa Study 

Group, RIIA 

PETER LEON 

Partner, law firm Webber Wentzel Bowens, 

Johannesburg; former Leader, opposition Democratic 

Alliance, Gauteng Provincial Legislature, Republic of 

South Africa 

9.10.01 Liberalizing the trade in services: the 

cases for and against extending the GATS 

Jointly held with the Energy and Environment 

Programme and the International Economics 


BARRY COATES 

Director, World Development Movement 

CHRISTOPHER ROBERTS CB 

Senior Trade Analyst, Covington & Burling; Chairman, 

Liberalisation of Trade in Services Committee, 

International Financial Services London 

PROFESSOR GARY SAMPSON 

A Director, WTO Secretariat (responsible for services 

throughout the GATT Uruguay Round) 

ELISABETH TUERK 

Staff Attorney, Center for International 

Environmental Law, Geneva 

10.10.01 Osama bin Laden and the roots of 

Islamic extremism 

ROGER HARDY 

Middle East and Islamic Affairs Analyst, 


18.10.01 Russia’s post-Communist economy 


Programme, RIIA to launch Russia’s Post- 

Communist Economy, edited by Brigitte Granville 

and Peter Oppenheimer (published by OUP) 

DR BORIS FEDOROV 

Honorary Chairman, United Financial Group; member, 

Board of Directors, Gazprom 

DR AUGUSTO LOPEZ-CLAROS 

Executive Director and Senior International 

Economist, Lehman Brothers; Resident 

Representative in Moscow, IMF, 1992-95 

24.10.02 Key foreign policy priorities of Ukraine 

HE MR ANATOLIY ZLENKO 

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine 

25.10.01 Building a stronger world community 

through trade 

THE RT HON PATRICIA HEWITT MP 

Secretary of State for Trade and Industry

29.10.01 NATO and European security: the lessons 

of conflict 

GENERAL WESLEY K CLARK Hon KBE 

Supreme Allied Commander, Europe and Commanderin-Chief, 

United States European Command, 1997- 

2000; author, Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo 

and the Future of Combat, UK publication Oct. 2001 

30.10.01 Means versus ends: combating ‘terrorism’ 

in the Middle East 

DR ROSEMARY HOLLIS 

Head of the Middle East Programme, RIIA 

30.10.01 Denmark’s no to the euro: implications a 

year on 

LEIF BECK FALLESEN 

Editor-in-Chief, Børsen, Denmark’s business daily 

Jointly held with the European Programme and 

International Economics Programme, RIIA 

31.10.01 Managing the transatlantic relationship 

Trade issues and prospects for the Doha 

WTO ministerial conference 

PROFESSOR JIM ROLLO CMG 

Professor of European Integration, University of 

Sussex and Co-Director, Sussex European Institute, 

since 1999; Chief Economic Adviser, Foreign & 

Commonwealth Office, 1993-98; Director, 

International Economics Programme, RIIA, 1989-93 

31.10.01 Israel and the Palestinians: 

the elusive peace 

PROFESSOR SHLOMO BEN-AMI MK 

Foreign Minister of Israel, 2000-01; previously Public 

Security Minister; Professor of History, Tel Aviv 

University; Member of the Knesset 

1.11.01 After ‘the end of history’: the growth 

of minority and indigenous rights 

Neelan Tiruchelvam Lecture 

Joint meeting with the Minority 

Rights Group 

PROFESSOR PATRICK THORNBERRY 

Member, UN Committee for the Elimination of 

Racial Discrimination; Chairman, Minority Rights 

Group International 

1.11.01 The problem of harm in world politics — 

implications for the sociology of 

states-systems 

Martin Wight Memorial Lecture 

PROFESSOR ANDREW LINKLATER 

Woodrow Wilson Professor of International Politics, 

University of Wales at Aberystwyth 

2.11.01 Pakistan’s role in the Afghan crisis 

IMRAN KHAN 

Leader, Pakistan Movement for Justice 

7.11.01 The international response to global 

terrorism: The British role 

THE RT HON TONY BENN 

Labour Member of Parliament for Chesterfield, 

1984-2001 

SIR TIMOTHY GARDEN KCB 

Visiting Professor, Centre for Defence Studies, King’s 

College London 

THE RT HON THE LORD HOWE OF 

ABERAVON CH QC 

Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth 

Affairs, 1983-89 


terrorism: The US and Iraq 

AMBASSADOR DAVID L MACK 

Vice President, The Middle East Institute, Washington 

DC; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near 

Eastern Affairs (1990-93); received the President’s 

distinguished service award for work during the Gulf 

War with Iraq 

9.11.01 The international response to 

global terrorism: The process of 

coalition-building 

WILLIAM EHRMAN 

Director, International Security, Foreign & 

Commonwealth Office 

BRONWEN MADDOX 

Foreign Editor, The Times 

STEVEN SIMON 

Assistant Director, IISS; previously Senior Director for 

Transnational Threats, US National Security Council 

12.11.01 The world economy and financial markets 

after the technology bubble 

ANATOLE KALETSKY 

Economics Editor, The Times 

13.11.01 Globalization and democracy and 

terrorism 

Joint meeting with the UK-New Zealand 

Link Foundation 

HE THE RT HON DONALD C McKINNON 

Commonwealth Secretary-General; New Zealand 

Minister of External Relations, then Foreign Affairs, 

and Trade, 1990-99; of Pacific Island Affairs, 1991-8; 

for Disarmament and Arms Control, 1996-99 


terrorism: New directions for US foreign 

policy: what will change and what will not? 

DR OLIN ROBISON 

President, The Salzburg Seminar; member of the 

Council, RIIA 

21.11.01 Do northern donors determine policy 

in NGOs? 

Joint meeting with the Royal 

African Society 

DR NEIL THIN 

Lecturer, School of Social & Political Studies, 

University of Edinburgh 

DR TINA WALLACE 

Senior Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University 

26.11.01 Will the telecommunications revolution 

help Africa bridge the development gap? 

Joint meeting with the Royal 

African Society 

MILES MORLAND 

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, 

Blakeney Management 

RICHARD WILKINSON 

Executive Deputy Chairman, African Lakes 


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26.11.01 Prospects for US-China relations in the 

wake of September 11 

Roland Berger Memorial Lecture. Joint 

meeting with The 48 Group Club 

STANLEY ROTH 

Vice President, Asia — International Relations, The 

Boeing Company; Assistant Secretary of State for 

Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, 

1997-2001 

27.11.01 New issues in international relations: 

Asylum and immigration: prospects for 

the Laeken Summit 

Jointly held with the European Programme, RIIA 

PEER BANEKE 

General Secretary, European Council on Refugees 

and Exiles 

DR CHRISTINA BOSWELL 

Marie Curie Fellow, Institute for Peace Research and 

Security Studies, Hamburg; Associate Fellow, 

European Programme, RIIA 

PHIL DOUGLAS 

Head, European Asylum Policy Unit, Home Office 


terrorism: Legal and moral issues and the 

role of the UN 

PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER GREENWOOD QC 

Professor of International Law, London School 

of Economics and Political Science 

PROFESSOR ADAM ROBERTS FBA 

Montague Burton Professor of International Relations 

and Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford 

29.11.01 Principles and results of the new Yugoslav 

foreign policy 

HE MR GORAN SVILANOVIC 

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic 

of Yugoslavia 

6.12.01 New issues in international relations: 

The motivation of the anti-establishment 

movement worldwide 

GEORGE MONBIOT 

Visiting Fellow, Green College Centre for 

Environmental Policy and Understanding, Green 

College, Oxford; correspondent, The Guardian; author, 

incl. Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain 

7.12.01 Good corporate behaviour in Russia — 

what will it take? 



DR IGOR V KOSTIKOV 

Chairman, Federal Commission for the Securities 

Market of the Russian Federation 

10.12.01 Europe in a changing world: the outlook 

from Slovenia 

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President, Republic of Slovenia since 1992 


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10.12.01 Who forms public opinion in Afghanistan? 

— A BBC World Service Briefing 

BAQER MOIN 

Head, Persian and Pashto Service, BBC World Service 

SHIRAZUDDIN SIDDIQI 

Editor, BBC World Service Education Project, incl. the 

soap Opera ‘New Home, New Life’ 

MEENA BAKTASH 

Afghan Producer, Persian Service for Women, BBC 

World Service 

11.12.01 Will trade sanctions reduce child labour? 



PROFESSOR SAJAL LAHIRI 

Professor of Economics, University of Essex 

17.12.01 Democracy and the war against global 

terrorism 

HE MR STJEPAN MESIC 

President, Republic of Croatia 

10.1.02 Basic trends in China in the 21st century 

DR ZHENG BIJIAN 

Vice President of the Party School, Central 

Committee of the Chinese Communist Party 

10.1.02 Race relations and racialism in everyday 

life in post-apartheid South Africa 

Joint meeting with the Royal African Society 

and the Southern Africa Business Association 

JOHN KANE-BERMAN 

Director, South African Institute of Race Relations 

14.1.02 Bosnia and Herzegovina: new policy, 

new image 

HE DR ZLATKO LAGUMDZIJA 

Chairman, Council of Ministers, and Minister of 

Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina 

15.1.02 Palestine-Israel: peace or apartheid? 

Prospects for resolving the conflict 

MARWAN BISHARA 

Lecturer, American University in Paris, and research 

fellow, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches sur la 

Paix et des Etudes Stratégiques, Paris 

16.1.02 Making a success of EU enlargement 


GRAHAM AVERY 

Chief Adviser, European Commission, Brussels 

22.1.02 Democracy and stability in Central Asia 

DR AKEZHAN KAZHEGELDIN 

Chairman, National Republican Party of Kazakhstan; 

Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, 1995-97 


terrorism: Iran and the new West Asia: 

opportunities and dangers 

PROFESSOR FRED HALLIDAY 

Professor of International Relations, LSE; author, incl. 

Two Hours that Shook the World: 11 September 2001, 

Causes and Consequences, Nov. 2001 

31.1.02 Britain’s place in a changing world 

THE RT HON IAIN DUNCAN SMITH 

Leader of the Opposition 

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4.2.02 The Bush Administration’s international 

security policy 

THE HON JOHN R BOLTON 

Under Secretary for Arms Control and International 

Security Affairs, Department of State, Washington DC 

5.2.02 How to handle globalization 

THE RT HON BARONESS WILLIAMS 

OF CROSBY 

Liberal Democrat Leader, House of Lords; 

a President, RIIA 

6.2.02 Japan’s failure in the era of globalization: 

implications and remedies 



PROFESSOR JEAN-PIERRE LEHMANN 

Professor of International Political Economy, 

International Institute for Management 

Development, Lausanne 

7.2.02 Italy and the European Union 

PROFESSOR ROCCO BUTTIGLIONE 

Italian Cabinet Minister for European Policies; Leader 

of the CDU (Christian Democratic Union) Party, 

member of the Coalition which won the Italian 

general election in May 2001 

8.2.02 Bulgaria’s participation in the 

anti-terrorist coalition 

HE DR SOLOMON PASSY 

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Bulgaria 

13.2.02 The return of foreign policy 

DR DENIS MACSHANE MP 

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign 

and Commonwealth Office 


terrorism: Prospects for Afghanistan 

DR OLIVIER ROY 

Senior researcher, Centre National de Recherches 

Scientifiques, Paris, and a consultant to the French 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs; author, incl. Islam and 

Resistance in Afghanistan, 1990 and The New Central 

Asia: The Creation of Nations, 2000 

15.2.02 New challenges for security policy 

(Round-table) 

HE PAAVO LIPPONEN 

Prime Minister, Republic of Finland 

15.2.02 Germany and Europe in 2002: 

a decisive year 


DR WOLFGANG SCHÄUBLE 

Chairman, CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group, 1998- 

2000; Federal Minister of the Interior, 1989-91 


terrorism: Do alleged terrorists have 

rights? 

DR MICHAEL BYERS 

Professor of International Law, Duke University, 

North Carolina; currently a visiting fellow, Keble 

College, Oxford 

AMBASSADOR PIERRE-RICHARD PROSPER 

US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues 

27. 2.02 Fourth John C Whitehead Lecture on 

Anglo-American Relations 

The international relations agenda: 

a business perspective 

THE LORD BROWNE OF MADINGLEY 

Group Chief Executive, BP plc 

4.3.02 The Doha development round and the 

world trading system: is there a role for 

the Commonwealth? 



SENATOR PETER COOK 

Senator for Western Australia; previously Trade 

Minister and Chairman of the Cairns Group during the 

Uruguay Round, and Industry Minister 

6.3.02 Is there still an Israeli-Palestinian peace 

process? 

HENRY SIEGMAN 

Senior Fellow and Director, US/Middle East Project, 

Council on Foreign Relations, New York 

7.3.02 Managing the transatlantic relationship 

European and American ideas on 

peacekeeping 

THE RT HON THE LORD HURD OF 

WESTWELL CH CBE 

Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth 

Affairs, 1989-95; a President, RIIA 

12.3.02 Italian foreign policy after September 11 

MARGHERITA BONIVER 

Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Italy 

13.3.02 Intelligence in the aftermath of 

September 11: global intelligence shortfalls 

and necessary remedies 

ROBERT D STEELE 

Former US spy; author, On Intelligence: Spies and 

Secrecy in an Open World, 2000 and the forthcoming 

The New Craft of Intelligence: Personal, 

Public and Political 

13.3.02 The Secret State: the hidden history of 

Whitehall and the Cold War 

PROFESSOR PETER HENNESSY 

Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History, 

Queen Mary, University of London; author, incl. 

The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War, 

1945-1970, March 2002 

21.3.02 Russia’s place in the European security 

environment 

DR NEIL MACFARLANE 

Lester B Pearson Professor of International 

Relations and Director, The Centre for International 

Studies, Oxford 

LORD WALLACE OF SALTAIRE 

Professor of International Relations, London School 

of Economics 

27.3.02 Lithuania in an integrated world 

HE MR VALDAS ADAMKUS 

President of the Republic of Lithuania 


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PUBLICATIONS 

Communicating opinion 

The events of the year confirmed the topicality and 

relevance of the Institute’s planned publications 

schedule. The sharp rise of interest in the Central 

Asian region boosted sales in our Central Asian and 

Caucasian Prospects series (especially Tajikistan and 

Islam in the CIS) and of titles from our Middle East 

Programme (particularly Globalization and the Middle 

East). Recent books on Iran and Saudi Arabia also 

received renewed media attention. 

Among a full schedule from the Energy and 

Environment Programme, we produced a paper on 

the fuel tax protests in time for the anniversary of 

the September 2000 demonstrations. The launch of 

the euro currency brought an added interest in 

European Programme publications, particularly 

The New Bilateralism. 

The Institute concluded a deal with Blackwell 

Publishers which aims to provide a higher profile for 

a wide range of titles in the Chatham House Papers 

series. 

During the year over 20 books, papers, briefing papers 

and workshop reports were published. 

Contact: Matthew Link E-mail: mlink@riia.org 

International Affairs 

International Affairs, the Institute’s quarterly journal 

and Europe’s leading journal of international relations, 

devoted its April 2001 issue to the climate change 

debate, following the failure to reach agreement on 

the Kyoto Protocol discussion at The Hague in 

November 2000 and in advance of the international 

negotiations and the resumed Conference of Parties in 

July 2001. Changing patterns of European security 

and defence were the focus of July’s issue, launched 

at a general meeting. 

International Affairs initiated a series of four seminars 

on NATO enlargement to be held in the run-up to the 

Prague summit in December 2002. The first seminar 

in this collaborative venture with the European 

Programme at Chatham House and Birmingham 

University’s Centre for Studies in Security and 

Diplomacy was held in November 2001. 

Contact: Genevieve Lester E-mail: glester@riia.org 


The World Today 

The aftershocks of 11 September dominated the 

magazine’s agenda in the second part of the year, with 

our own analysts responding to these seismic events 

before the month was out. Later contributions ranged 

widely, from biological and nuclear threats to issues of 

law and human rights. 

Distribution took several steps forward. Subscribers 

and Institute members in Britain began to receive their 

copies by first-class mail and The World Today 

appeared on magazine racks in British Airways 

lounges at Heathrow and Gatwick airports. 

Through The Observer newspaper website, articles 

from the magazine were made available to a much 

wider readership, generating strong reader reaction, 

especially to an essay on US unilateralism by 

Professor Paul Rogers. The Institute’s own website 

enjoyed a steady flow of electronic orders for the 

printed magazine. 

Ahead of the UN summit on children, the August/ 

September issue featured the first articles by young 

people, alongside contributions from two of the 

foremost women in the international community — 

Graça Machel and Mary Robinson. 

Contact: Michelle Mannion E-mail: wt@riia.org

Library and information services 

The library, which houses volumes on politics, 

economics, security and the environment, includes an 

invaluable and regularly updated collection of books, 

pamphlets and newspapers from the last 30 years and 

periodicals from the last 15 years. 

In the last year, as well as participating in the new 

members’ evenings and producing topical 

bibliographies, the library has continued to work 

Books and special papers 

05.01 Coherence in International Economic 

Policy-making 

Zhen Kun Wang 

09.01 The Fuel Tax Protests in Europe, 

2000-2001 

John V. Mitchell and Müge Dolun 

10.01 World Economic Liberalization in a 

Historical Perspective 

Forrest Capie 

10.01 Islam in the CIS: A Threat to Stability? 

Yaacov Ro'i 

12.01 Tajikistan: Disintegration or 

Reconciliation? 

Shirin Akiner 

01.02 The New Bilateralism: The UK’s Relations 

Within the EU 

Julie Smith and Mariana Tsatsas 

03.02 Globalization and the Middle East: 

Islam, Economy, Society, and Politics 

Toby Dodge and Richard Higgot (eds) 

03.02 Technology Transfer for Renewable 

Energy: Overcoming Barriers in 

Developing Countries 

Gill Wilkins 

03.02 The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: 

Reconciling Trade in Biotechnology with 

Environment and Development? 

Christoph Bail, Robert Falkner and Helen 

Marquard (eds) 

BACKGROUND: RIIA specialist quoted in The Guardian. 

FOREGROUND: A selection of RIIA publications. 

on making the new library catalogue accessible through 

our website. It is now possible to search our holdings 

from 1990 onwards online. UK members can e-mail or 

phone the enquiry desk for any item required, and 

the library will have it posted immediately. This 

facility is particularly useful for members who live 

outside London. 

Contact: Library staff E-mail: libenquire@riia.org 

Briefing papers 

05.01 Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol: The Case for 

Japanese-Russian Joint Implementation 

Benito Müller 

06.01 China and US Foreign Policy in The Asia- 

Pacific: Living With American Dominance 

Mike Smith and Nicholas Khoo 

09.01 Caspian Oil Realities 

Terry Adams 

10.01 Burma: Companies, NGOs and the New 

Diplomacy 

John Bray 

11.01 Traditionalists versus the New Economy: 

Competing Agendas for European Gas 

Markets to 2020 

Jonathan Stern 

11.01 The Sugar Industries of Southern Africa: 

Challenges and Opportunities 

Martin Todd 

12.01 Indonesia after Wahid: The New 

Authoritarianism 

Christopher Candland and Siti Nurjanah 

02.02 Climate Change in Focus: The IPCC Third 

Assessment Report 

Joanna Depledge 

02.02 Eu Immigration and Asylum Policy: From 

Tampere to Laeken and Beyond 

Christina Boswell 

03.02 The European ‘Roma Question’ 

Martin Kovats 

Workshop and conference reports 

05.01 Energy and Climate: Russian-European 

Partnership 

Anna Korppoo, Christiaan Vrolijk and Jonathan 

Stern 

07.01 Corporate Citizenship: Exploring the New 

Responsibilities 

Halina Ward 

Contact: Matthew Link E-mail: mlink@riia.org 


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MEDIA 

The recent demand for 

informed media comment 

and analysis has raised 

the Institute’s profile 

significantly. Spokespeople 

from our Middle East, 

Russia and Eurasia and 

International Economics 

Programmes, as well as the 

Director and defence and security experts from the 

European Programme, have been much in demand 

and quoted in over 1,000 published and broadcast 

interviews worldwide. 

All UK broadsheet newspapers and major TV and radio 

news bulletins on BBC, ITN, Channel 4, Radio 4 and 

Sky and other satellite and cable channels have 

repeatedly requested interviews with our experts. 

Our specialists have also contributed to studio debates 

on Newsnight, Channel 4 News, the Jonathan 

Dimbleby Programme, Breakfast with Frost, Any 

Questions, the Today programme, On the Record, 

Powerhouse, PM, Broadcasting House, The World at 

One and over 50 World Service programmes. 

Contact: Keith Burnet E-mail: kburnet@riia.org 

BACKGROUND: TV crews and journalists regularly attend and record 

meetings and conferences at Chatham House. 

FOREGROUND: Dr Denis MacShane MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary 

of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 


Media and political events 

5.6.01 Press conference: British foreign policy: 

beyond the general election 

13.9.01 Press conference by International 

Economics and Middle East Programmes 

on terrorist attacks on US 

18.9.01 Parliamentary Briefing Group: Energy 

Green Paper briefing for MEPs in Brussels 

28.9.01 Briefing for Editors: The international 

response to global terrorism — 

multi-programme briefing 

31.10.01 Parliamentary Briefing Group: The 

international response to global terrorism 

— defence and security issues 

7.11.01 Middle East Programme Briefing for BBC 

Producers, Editors and Journalists 

29.11.01 Parliamentary Briefing Group: The 

international response to global terrorism 

— Arab popular and official opinion 

4.12.01 Joint Parliamentary Briefing Group with 

BBC World Service: 

Afghanistan — The bigger picture 

12.12.01 Parliamentary Briefing Group: 

The international response to global 

terrorism — Political prospects for rebuilding 

Afghanistan 

16.1.02 Parliamentary Briefing Group: Zimbabwe 

and Sierra Leone — Britain out of its 

depth? 


Latin America after the Argentine 

financial crisis 


Is the euro working?

HONORARY TREASURER’S REPORT 

The year to 31 March 2002 was one of transition during 

which the Director put in hand a number of changes to 

secure the future of the Institute. As expected the 

results reflect this. 

The Institute achieved an overall surplus of £66,000 for 

the year. There was a deficit of £15,000 on general 

unrestricted funds. Net expenditure out of designated 

funds amounted to £29,000. Research activity showed 

an overall surplus of £130,000 but drew down £30,000 

from restricted funds. The market value of investments 

increased by £10,000. Cash outflow was £124,000. 

The deficit of £15,000 on general unrestricted funds was 

after a number of one-off items, namely a legacy 

received, the recovery of tax under gift aid from the 

previous year and an up-front payment which was 

negotiated on the new publishing agreement. Without 

these the deficit would have been £170,000, which is 

somewhat worse than budget. Conferences were 

adversely affected by the 11 September tragedy and, 

although remaining profitable, were behind budget. 

The results include the costs of new members of staff 

recruited to improve fundraising and membership. 

Membership income increased to £844,000 including 

£64,000 of recoveries of gift aid compared with 

£767,000 in the previous year. Council members and 

senior members of staff contributed £20,000 to the 

Annual Fund. 

Net expenditure out of designated funds amounted to 

£29,000, comprising £15,000 of costs associated with 

the website and £14,000 spent on the Mercosur study 

group out of the New Initiatives Fund. £130,000 has 

been allocated from unrestricted funds into the New 

Initiatives Fund to support the Director in rebuilding the 

research base. 

Research income improved compared with the previous 

year, largely as a consequence of funding agreed for the 

joint study on China. The Sustainable Development 

Programme, however, had to use restricted Belgrave 

funds to cover its deficit of £30,000 at the year end. 

Cash outflow of £124,000 included capital expenditure 

on the website, completion of the library software 

project and other smaller IT projects totalling £123,000. 

£500,000 of monies from restricted funds was placed 

with Schroders, selected by the Institute as investment 

managers, and at the year end £249,000 had been 

invested in a common investment fund designed for 

charities. The Institute ended the year with deposits and 

investments amounting to £4.3 million compared with 

£4.4 million at the beginning of the year. 

The budget for the year to 31 March 2003 is close to 

breakeven on unrestricted general funds. It is planned to 

achieve this turnaround through the drive for new 

members and continuing tight control of costs. The 

Institute has authorized capital expenditure of 

£359,000 for the year to 31 March 2003 in order to 

refurbish the fourth floor. There will also be outflows on 

designated funds from the utilization of the remaining 

funds that were set aside for the website and the 

drawdown of part of the New Initiatives Fund to help 

finance research activity. The budget is challenging but 

achievable, and represents a clear step towards 

generating the surpluses on general unrestricted funds 

that the Institute needs in order to secure its future. 

Adrian Lamb 

11 June 2002 


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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 

The summarized accounts are extracted from the 

full unqualified audited group accounts approved 

by the Council on 11 June 2002, and they will 

subsequently be submitted to the Charity Commission. 

They may not contain sufficient information to allow a 

full understanding of the affairs of the Institute. 

For further information, the full financial accounts 

may be consulted. 

To obtain copies, telephone Lavinia Allison, 

Business Director, on 020 7957 5752. 

Signed on behalf of the Council 

Marshall of Knightsbridge Chairman 

9 July 2002 

Auditors’ Statement to the Council of the Royal 

Institute of International Affairs 

We have examined the summarized financial 

statements set out on pages 21 and 22. 


Respective responsibilities of 

Council and auditors 

You are responsible as trustees for the preparation of 

the summarized financial statements. We have agreed 

to report to you our opinion on the summarized 

statements’ consistency with the full financial 

statements, on which we reported on 11 June 2002. 

Basis of opinion 

We have carried out the procedures we 

consider necessary to ascertain whether the 

summarized financial statements are consistent 

with the full financial statements from which they 

have been prepared. 

Opinion 

In our opinion the summarized financial statements 

are consistent with the full financial statements for 

the year ended 31 March 2002. 

SAYER VINCENT 

Chartered Accountants 

Registered Auditors 

London 

9 July 2002

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITY 

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2002 

Restricted Other 

Unrestricted Funds Research Restricted 2002 2001 

General Designated Funds Funds Total Total 

£’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 

Incoming Resources 

Donations and Legacies 52 - - - 52 3 

Operating Activities in Furtherance of 

the Institute's Objectives 

Membership Subscriptions 844 - - - 844 767 

Meetings, Library and Publications 508 - - - 508 332 

Conferences 748 - - - 748 960 

Research 25 10 1,693 - 1,728 1,509 

Investment Income 106 - - 77 183 230 

Total Incoming Resources 2,283 10 1,693 77 4,063 3,801 

Less: Cost of Generating Funds 

Fundraising and Publicity 151 - - - 151 61 

Net Incoming Resources Available 

for Charitable Application 2,132 10 1,693 77 3,912 3,740 

Resources Expended 

Charitable Expenditure 

Membership, Meetings, Library and Publications 619 - - 29 648 549 

Conferences 594 - - - 594 781 

Research 42 19 1,310 78 1,449 1,478 

Support Costs 695 20 253 - 968 693 

Management and Administration 197 - - - 197 354 

Total Charitable Expenditure 2,147 39 1,563 107 3,856 3,855 

Net (Outgoing)/Incoming 

Resources for the Year 

General Funds (15) - - - (15) (97) 

Designated and Restricted Funds - (29) 130 (30) 71 (18) 

Transfers Between Funds 

New Initiatives Fund (130) 130 - - - - 

Property & Equipment Fund 24 (24) - - - - 

Library Fund 13 - - (13) - - 

Net (Outgoing)/Incoming Resources (108) 77 130 (43) 56 (115) 

Increase in Market Value of Investments - - - 10 10 - 

Net Movement in Funds (108) 77 130 (33) 66 (115) 

Funds at 1 April 2001 1,532 905 264 1,751 4,452 4,567 

Funds at 31 March 2002 1,424 982 394 1,718 4,518 4,452 


22 

BALANCE SHEETS 

AT 31 MARCH 2002 


Group Institute 

2002 2001 2002 2001 

£’000 £’000 £’000 £’000 

Fixed Assets 

Tangible Fixed Assets 760 784 760 784 

Investments 259 - 259 - 

1,019 784 1,019 784 

Current Assets 

Stocks 2 2 2 2 

Debtors 628 417 592 385 

Short Term Deposits 3,151 4,017 3,151 4,017 

Cash at Bank and in Hand 930 437 924 422 

4,711 4,873 4,669 4,826 

Creditors: 

Amounts Falling Due Within One Year 1,212 1, 205 1,172 1,160 

Net Current Assets 3,499 3,668 3,497 3,666 

Total Assets less Current Liabilities 4,518 4,452 4,516 4,450 

Net Assets 4,518 4,452 4,516 4,450 

Funds 

Restricted Funds 2,112 2,015 2,112 2,015 

Unrestricted Funds: 

Designated Funds 982 905 982 905 

General Funds 1,424 1,532 1,422 1,530 

Total Funds 4,518 4,452 4,516 4,450 

The Institute owns the freehold interest in the building known as Chatham House, which is included in the 

balance sheet at cost.

DEVELOPMENT ISSUES 

Chatham House development 

Reinvigorated and with a new optimism about the 

future, Chatham House has an opportunity to build on 

its solid reputation to strengthen the existing financial 

base and to promote challenging new research. 

Our plans to launch new research programmes and for 

the refurbishment of the third and fourth floors of 

Chatham House mean that we must also look at new 

ways of raising money for these initiatives. We are 

developing strategies for achieving these aims by 

making full use of our networks of friends, members 

and supporters. Much time needs to be given to 

persuading charitable trusts and foundations, and 

corporate members, to give generously. We shall also 

ask individual members to show their commitment 

through the Annual Fund and Legacy campaigns that 

we are planning to launch in 2002. 

Contact: Tariq Sadiq E-mail: tsadiq@riia.org 

Premises rental 

Organizations can use Chatham House facilities 

for business meetings, conferences and hospitality 

events. The historic surroundings and convenient 

location make the Institute’s home on St James’s 

Square an ideal venue for companies to host 

such occasions. 

A large number of businesses use the building’s 

facilities for a variety of events. As well as annual 

general meetings, conferences, seminars, business 

dinners and discussion forums, these have included 

an internet company launch and a wine-tasting. 

Television companies have also used the rooms to film 

a number of factual, drama and light entertainment 

programmes including CBS’s 60 Minutes, BBC1’s Fields 

of Gold, and Channel 4’s Bremner, Bird and Fortune. 

Contact: Patricia Lewis E-mail: bookings@riia.org 

Website development 

Phase one of a major 

relaunch of the Institute’s 

website was started during 

the year. 

Much time and investment 

has gone into modernizing 

the presentation and content 

of the site, and a number of 

new features were made 

available in the first stage of 

the relaunch. These include: 

a new category of virtual 

e-membership; a members’ zone; message boards for 

research areas; 360-degree tours of Chatham House; 

audio streaming and speech transcripts from general 

meetings and conferences; catalogues of library and 

RIIA publications; a media centre for journalists; 

and online versions of International Affairs and The 

World Today. 

New e-commerce facilities allow members and clients 

to pay subscriptions (including those for membership), 

book conferences, and buy publications online. The 

updating of the website is a key part of the Institute’s 

ongoing modernization plans to expand all areas of 

activity and services for members. 

Contact: Oliver Cusworth 

E-mail: ocusworth@riia.org 

BACKGROUND: Neill Malcolm Room; Henry Price Room; Chatham House 

exterior; Duke of York Room; Astor Room. 

FOREGROUND 1: The Henry Price Room. 

FOREGROUND 2: A meeting in the Henry Price Room. 

FOREGROUND 3: Rory Bremner impersonating Gordon Brown, filming at 

Chatham House for the Channel 4 TV series ‘Bremner, Bird and Fortune’. 

FOREGROUND 4: The Institute’s redesigned website. 


24 

PATRON, PRESIDENTS AND COUNCIL 

The government of the Institute is vested in the Council, whose 

members are elected by the Institute’s members. There are 

three committees of the Council: the Executive Committee, the 

Finance Committee and the Investment Committee. 

Patron 

Her Majesty The Queen 

Presidents 

The Rt Hon Lord Hurd of 

Westwell 

The Rt Hon Lord Robertson 

of Port Ellen 

The Rt Hon Baroness 

Williams of Crosby 

The Council 2001/2002 

(at 31 March 2002) 

Chairman 

(Executive Committee) 

Lord Marshall of 

Knightsbridge 

Chairman, British Airways plc 

Chairman, Invensys plc 

Deputy Chairman 

(Executive Committee, 

Finance Committee, 

Investment Committee) 

Peter Cooke CBE 

Adviser to 

PricewaterhouseCoopers 

Hon Treasurer 

(Executive Committee, 

Finance Committee, 

Investment Committee) 

Adrian Lamb 

Partner, 


(retired) 

Secretary to Council 

Lavinia Allison 

Sir Leonard Appleyard KCMG 

Finance Committee 

Vice Chairman, Barclays 

Capital 

Sir John Birch KCVO CMG 

Executive Committee 

Investment Committee 

Director, British Association 

for Central and Eastern 

Europe 

Tony Colman MP 

Member of Parliament for 

Putney, International 

Development Select 

Committee 

Humphry Crum Ewing 


Research Fellow, Centre for 

Defence and International 

Security Studies, Lancaster 

University; recently specialist 

adviser to the House of 

Commons Defence Committee 

Dr Anne Deighton 


Fellow of Wolfson College; 

Lecturer in European 

International Politics, 

University of Oxford 

Peter Erskine 

CEO, mm02 

Jonathan M. Fry 


Chairman, Christian Salvesen 

plc; Chairman, Elementis plc, 

Deputy Chairman, Northern 

Foods plc; Chairman, Control 

Risks Group Holdings plc 

Lord Goodhart QC 

Commissioner, International 

Commission of Jurists 1993 

(Vice-President 2002); 

Member, Committee on 

Standards in Public Life 1997; 

Member of the EU Select 

Committee, House of Lords 

1998-2001 


Nik Gowing 


Presenter, BBC World TV, BBC 

News; former Diplomatic 

Editor, Channel 4 News 

Simon Henderson 

Author, biography of Saddam 

Hussein and study of the 

Saudi Royal Family 

Professor Christopher Hill 

Montague Burton Professor of 

International Relations & 

Vice-Chairman Academic 

Board, LSE; Honorary 

President of British 

International Studies 

Association 

Dr DeAnne Julius CBE 


Non-executive Director, 

Lloyds TSB, BP, Serco, Roche. 

Member of Bank of England 

Court, Learning & Skills 

Council 

John Maples MP 

Co-opted under By-Law 38 


Former Shadow Foreign 

Secretary, former Treasury 

Minister and Member of the 

Foreign Affairs Select 

Committee 

Dr Richard Mayne 

Writer, journalist, broadcaster; 

former senior official of the 

European Community 

Professor Roger Morgan 

External Professor, European 

University Institute, Florence; 

Visiting Fellow, European 

Institute, LSE, 1998-2000 

Quentin Peel 

International Affairs Editor 

of the Financial Times 

Dr Olin Robison 

President, Salzburg Seminar 

President Emeritus and 

Professor Emeritus, 

Middlebury College 

Lord Roper 



Liberal Democrat Chief Whip, 

House of Lords; Hon 

Professor, University of 

Birmingham 

Anne Sloman 

Chief Political Adviser, BBC 

David Suratgar 


Lawyer and Banker; Director, 

Institute for International 

Environment & Development 

Director, Major Projects 

Association 

Member Global Advisory 

Board of George Washington 

University, DC 

Lord Wallace of Saltaire 

Professor of International 

Relations, LSE; Liberal 

Democrat spokesman on 

foreign affairs in the House 

of Lords 

Robert Walvis 

Director of Planning, 

Environment and External 

Affairs, Shell International 

Limited (retired July 2001) 

Dr Michael C. Williams 

Special Adviser to the 

Secretary of State for Foreign 

& Commonwealth Affairs 

Council meetings are 

customarily also attended 

by the Director, the Secretary 

to Council and, at Council’s 

invitation, the Staff 

Representative.

STAFF AND STRUCTURE 

At 31 March 2002, Chatham House had 60 full-time and 

part-time staff. There were also 60 Associate Fellows and 

5 Visiting Fellows. 

Chatham House is grateful for the generous support of BP 

and Trade Partners UK in seconding staff members to head 

the External Relations Group and Latin America Projects 

Directorate 

Director: Professor Victor 

Bulmer-Thomas 

Executive Assistant: 

Petra Wöstefeld 

Director of Research: 

Professor Victor 

Bulmer-Thomas 

Personal Assistant: 

Natasha Tan 

Business Director: 

Lavinia Allison 


Julie Martin 

Director of Development: 

Tariq Sadiq 


Natasha Tan 

External Relations 

Group 

Head of Corporate Relations 

& Development: 

Lindsey Crosswell 

Media and Political Relations 

Manager: Keith Burnet 

Web Editor: Oliver Cusworth 

Research Programmes 

Sustainable Development 

Programme 

Head: Duncan Brack 

Senior Research Fellow: 

Malaika Culverwell 

Programme Administrator: 

Kate Kinsman 


Ruth Tatton-Kelly 


Head: Dr Julie Smith 


Laura Hamilton 


Programme 

Head: Dr Brigitte Granville 


Joann Fong 


Head: Dr Rosemary Hollis 


Robert Lowe 

Russia & Eurasia 

Programme 

Head: Dr Roy Allison 

Research Fellow: Dr Clelia 

Rontoyanni 


James Nixey 

British-Angola Forum 

Programme Coordinator: 

Teresa O’Shannassy 


Head: Mike Mecham OBE 

Partnership Activities 

Asia-Pacific Technology 

Network 

Chief Executive: Louis Turner 

respectively. During the year Chatham house benefited 

from the voluntary services of a number of people seeking 

work experience. 

Chatham House Enterprises Limited (CHEL) is a whollyowned 

trading subsidiary donating all profits to the 

Institute. Its Chairman is Adrian Lamb. 

Departments 

Conferences 

Head: Philippa Challen 

Conference Manager: 

Danielle Valens 

Conference Developer: 

Catherine O’Keeffe* 

Conference Marketing 

Executive: Emma Harris 

Conference Coordinator: 

Georgina Wright 

Finance 

Head: Andy Cobbett 

Senior Financial Accountant: 

Mahendra Kothari 

Financial Accountant 

(Accounts Receivable & 

Payroll): Aninda Mitra 

Financial Accountant 

(Accounts Payable): 

Emilia Baran 

House & Personnel 

Assistant Director: 

Dawn Margrett 


Patricia Lewis 

Personal Assistant (Until Feb. 

2002): Ann Youd 

Receptionist: Andrea Allister 

Head Porter: Douglas Bunce 

Maintenance Porter: 

John George 

Head of Despatch: Ian Los 

Despatch Assistant: 

Sonia Kinghorne 

Catering Manager: 

Louise Evans 

Chef: Leon Porter 

Library 

Head of Information: 

Catherine Hume 

Deputy Librarian: Mary Bone 

Assistant Librarian: 

Malcolm Madden 

Senior Library Assistant: 

Susan Franks 

Administrative Assistant: 

Linda Bedford 

IT Department 

Technical Systems 

Manager: Ryan Jenkin 

Database Manager: 

Michael Farrell 

Meetings Department 

Head: Heather Weeks 

Meetings Administrator: 

Jessica Delaney 

Membership 

Corporate Membership 

Paul Morris 

Individual Membership 

Charlotte Armah 

Membership Executive: 

James Kirton 

Publications 

Head: Margaret May 

Publications Coordinator: 

Matthew Link 

International Affairs 

Editor: Caroline Soper 

Assistant Editor: 

Genevieve Lester 

The World Today 

Editor: Graham Walker 

Assistant Editor: 

Michelle Mannion 

* Staff Representative 


26 

ASSOCIATE AND VISITING FELLOWS 

Associate Fellows at 31 March 2002 

Professor Vinod Aggarwal 


Programme 

Dr Shirin Akiner 

Russia and Eurasia 

Programme 

Dr Ali Ansari 


Gordon Baker 

DoR/Caribbean & Chairman, 

Caribbean Study Group 

Dr Tarak Barkawi 

DoR/Middle East 

Massimo Beber 


Programme 

Peter Beck 


Programme 

Professor Iain Begg 


Jesmond Blumenfeld 

DoR/Africa & Chairman, 

Southern Africa Study 

Group* 

Dr Christina Boswell 


Susan Boyde 

Library 

Professor Michael 

Bradshaw 


Programme 

Dr Shaun Breslin 

DoR/Asia 

David Bruce 


Programme 

Fanny Calder 


Programme 

Professor Michael Cox 

DoR/US & Chairman, US 

Discussion Group 

Christopher Cviic 


Professor E Philip Davis 


Programme 

Maître Saad Djebbar 


Toby Dodge 


Dr Robert Falkner 


Programme 

Sir Timothy Garden 


Kevin Gray 


Programme 

Stephen Green 

DoR/Asia & Convenor, China 


Malcolm Grimston 


Programme 

Dr Michael Grubb 


Programme 

Gavin Hayman 


Programme 

Dr Edmund Herzig 


Programme 

Dr Christopher Hood 

DoR/Asia & Convenor, Japan 


William Hopkinson 


Dr Christopher Hughes 

DoR/Asia 

Joy Hyvarinen 


Programme 

Kofi Kufuor 


Programme 

Dr Mark Laffey 

DoR/Middle East 

*The work of the Southern Africa Study Group concluded during 2001-02. 

Research on Southern Africa will be continued by the Africa Programme 

when it is launched in July 2002. 

DoR: Office of the Director of Research 


Jean-Pierre Landau 


Programme 

Dr Carol Leonard 


Programme 

Dr Louisiana Lush 


Programme 

John Mitchell 


Programme 

Sir John Moberly 


Dr Benito Müller 


Programme 

Martin Nicholson 


Programme 

Dr Gerd Nonneman 


Dr Keun-Wook Paik 


Programme 

Walt Patterson 


Programme 

Dr Alain Rizk 


Programme 

Professor Jacek Rostowski 


Programme 

Dr Judith Shapiro 


Programme 

Nadim Shehadi 


Professor Jack Spence 

DoR/Africa 

Dr Claire Spencer 


Jonathan Stern 


Programme 

Dr William J. Tompson 


Programme 

Mariana Tsatsas 


Alex Vines 

DoR/Convenor, British- 

Angola Forum 

Professor David Wall 


Programme/Chairman, China 


Dr Zhen Kun Wang 


Programme 

Gill Wilkins 


Programme 

Craig Windram 


Programme 

Dr Kataryna Wolczuk 


Dr Mai Yamani 


Visiting Fellows 

Professor José Augusto 

Guilhon Albuquerque 


Osamu Moriya 


Programme 

Tsutomu Murasaki 


Programme 

Mutsumi Nakao 


Programme 

Keiko Okada 


Programme

MEMBERSHIP 

Individual membership 

Chatham House members are a vital part of the ongoing 

success of the Institute. RIIA’s high media profile has led to 

a rise in the level of individual membership applications. 

New members come from a diverse range of backgrounds 

and nationalities, with several citing the opportunity to 

hear from international opinion formers and leaders as the 

key factor in their decision to join. The new members’ 

receptions in November 2001 and March 2002 gave guests 

the chance to meet the Director and the Institute’s staff. 

The Institute plans to develop new interactive 

membership formats to make its benefits available to the 

widest possible audience. Web membership will give 

internet users access to Chatham House resources online. 

Contact: Charlotte Armah E-mail: carmah@riia.org 

Corporate membership 

Chatham House corporate members are a diverse and 

prestigious group of organizations united by their interest 

in participating in international affairs debates and issues. 

In addition to the Institute’s 257 corporate members, 

30 organizations opted to become major corporate 

members by the end of the year. This year the Institute 

introduced a new service, the Major Corporate 

Partnership, which has been designed for companies that 

wish to become more involved with the Institute and its 

research programmes. As well as being entitled to 

nominate more members, major corporates have been 

able to attend special events and research briefings. 

Also introduced during the year were the Director’s events 

for business. Speakers at these breakfasts and lunches 

included Pierre Pettigrew, Canada’s Minister for 

International Trade; Dr DeAnne Julius, former member, 

Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee; Bill Morris, 

General Secretary, Transport and General Workers’ Union; 

Donald Tsang, Chief Secretary for Administration, Hong 

Kong Special Administrative Region; and the Rt Hon 

Michael Portillo MP. 

Contact: Paul Morris E-mail: pmorris@riia.org 

Major Corporate Members at 31 March 2002 

Accenture 

AstraZeneca plc 

BAE Systems plc 

Barclays Bank plc 

BG Group 

BHP Billiton 

Bovis Lend Lease Ltd 

BP plc 

British Airways plc 

British American Tobacco 

Defence, Ministry of 

Deutsche Bank 

Diageo plc 

Economist Group, The 

ExxonMobil 

Foreign and 

Commonwealth Office 

Corporate Members at 31 March 2002 

Abbey National plc 

ABC News Intercontinental Inc 

AKE Limited 

Al-Hayat (London) 

Amar International Charitable 

Foundation, The 

Amerada Hess Ltd 

American Express Bank Ltd 

Amnesty International 

Anglo-American plc 

Arab-British Chamber of 

Commerce 

Argentina, Embassy of 

Armorgroup Services Ltd 

Asahi Shimbun (Europe) 

Asia House 

Association of British Insurers 

Association of Coffee 

Producing Countries 

Australia, High Commission of 

Austria, Embassy of 

Azerbaijan, Embassy of the 

Republic of 

Bahrain, Embassy of 

GlaxoSmithKline 

Goldman Sachs International 

HSBC Holdings plc 

Lloyds TSB Group plc 

N M Rothschild and Sons Ltd 


Rinku of London plc 

Rio Tinto plc 

Saudi Petroleum Overseas Ltd 

Shell International Ltd 

Standard Chartered Bank 

Trade and Industry, 

Department of 

Unilever plc 

Yukos Oil Corporation 

Bangladesh, High Commission 

for the People’s Republic of 

Bank of England 

Bank of Italy 

Bank of Japan 

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd 

Baring Asset Management 

BBC 

BBC World 


Belgium, Embassy of 

Belize, High Commission of 

BMCE Bank 

BMW Group 

BOC Group plc 

Bosnia and Herzegovina, 

Embassy of 

Botswana, High Commission of 

Brazil, Embassy of 

British Council 

British North American 

Research Association 

British Nuclear Fuels plc 

British Nuclear Industry Forum 


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MEMBERSHIP 

BT plc 

Burson-Marsteller Limited 

Cabinet Office / Overseas and 

Defence Secretariat 

Cable and Wireless plc 

Canada, High Commission of 

CBS News 

Centre for Global Energy 

Studies 

Channel 4 

Chile, Embassy of 

China, Embassy of 

Chown Dewhirst LLP 

Chubu Electric Power Co Inc 

Church of England 

Citibank International plc 

Civil Service College 

Cleary Gottlieb Steen and 

Hamilton 

Clerical Medical Investment 

Group Ltd 

Clifford Chance 

Commerzbank AG (London) 

Commonwealth Parliamentary 

Association Secretariat 

Commonwealth Secretariat 

Confederation of British 

Industry 

Conoco (UK) Limited 

Control Risks Group Ltd 

Corriere Della Sera 

Coudert Brothers 

Crown Agents 

CRU International Ltd 

Cyprus, High Commission of 

Czech Republic, Embassy of the 

Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank Ltd 

Daily Mail and General Trust 

Daily Telegraph 

David Davies Memorial Institute 

of International Studies, The 

De La Rue plc 

Denmark, Royal Embassy of 

Denton Wilde Sapte 

Development Bank of Japan 

Diamond Trading Co (Pty) Ltd 

Dow Jones and Co Inc 

EADS UK Ltd 

Egypt, Embassy of the 

Arab Republic of 

Electricity Association 

Services Limited 

Energy Intelligence Group 

Enterprise Oil 

Environment, Food and Rural 

Affairs, Department for 

EPPA plc 

Ernst & Young 

Estonia, Embassy of the 

Republic of 

European Bank for 

Reconstruction and 

Development (EBRD) 

European Commission 

European Parliament UK Office 

Eversheds 

Federal Trust 

Fiat UK Ltd 

Financial Times 

Finland, Embassy of 

France, Embassy of 

Freshfields Bruckhams 

Deringer 

Fuji Research Institute Corp 

Fujisankei Communications Intl 

Fujitsu Services 

Future Events News Service Ltd 

GB Airways Ltd 

GCHQ — Government 

Communications Headquarters 

Genesis Investment 

Management 

Geneva Centre for Security 

Germany, Embassy of 

GKN plc 

Greece, Embassy of 

Group 4 Securitas 

(International) BV 

Guardian, The 

HM Treasury 

Hong Kong Economic and 

Trade Office 

House of Commons Library 

House of Lords Library 

Hungary, Embassy of 

Iceland, Embassy of 

Independent Television News 

India, Office of the High 

Commission of 

Indonesia, Embassy of the 

Republic of 

Industrial Bank of Japan 

Instinet International Ltd 

International Development, 

Department for 

International Financial Services 

(London) 

International Grains Council 

Investcorp International Ltd 

Ireland, Embassy of 

Israel, Embassy of 

Italy, Embassy of 

J T International 

Japan Bank for 

International Cooperation 

Japan Centre for 

International Finance 

Japan, Embassy of 

Japan National Oil Corporation 

JETRO London JICA — 

UK office 

John Swire and Sons Ltd 

Jordan Information Bureau 

JP Morgan 

Kansai Electric Power Co Inc 

Korea, Embassy of the 

Republic of 

Kraft Foods Kroll Associates 

UK Ltd 

Kuwait, Embassy of the State of 

Kuwait Information Centre 

Kuwait Investment office 

Kyodo News 


Lazard Brothers and Co 

League of Arab States 

Lehman Brothers International 

Lesotho, High Commission of 

the Kingdom of 

Linklaters 

Lithuania, Embassy of 

Lloyd’s 

London Business School 

London Export Limited 

London Stock Exchange 

Luxembourg, Embassy of 

Macedonia, Embassy of the 

Republic of 

Malta, High Commission of 

Marathon Oil UK Lt 

Marks and Spencer plc 

Marubeni Europe plc 

Matheson and Co Ltd 

Matrix Research Ltd 

Merrill Lynch Europe plc 

Metropolitan Police Service 

Mexico, Embassy of 

Mitsubishi Corporation 

European Headquarters 

Mitsui and Co UK plc 

Money Line 

Monsanto Company 

Moore Europe 

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter 

Moscow Narodny Bank Ltd 

NASEO 

Netherlands, Royal Embassy of 

New Zealand, High Commission of 

NHK Japan Broadcasting 

Corporation 

Nihon Keizai Shimbun 

Norinchukin Bank 

Norway, Royal Embassy of 

Oman, Embassy of the 

Sultanate of 

Osaka Gas Co Ltd (London) 

Oxford Analytica Limited 

Pakistan, High Commission for 

the Islamic Republic of 

Poland, Embassy of 

Portugal, Embassy of 

Powergen UK plc 

Premier Oil plc 

Prudential plc 

Punchline 

Qatar, Embassy of the State of 

QINETIQ 

Quebec, Office of the 

Government of 

Radio Free Europe 

Ranger Oil (UK) Ltd 

Reader’s Digest, The 

Reliance Europe Ltd 

Research Institute for 

International Economics, The 

Reuters Ltd 

Rolls-Royce plc 

Royal and Sun Alliance 

Insurance 

Royal Bank of Scotland 

Royal Mail International 

Salomon Smith Barney 

Sanwa Bank Ltd 

Saudi Arabia, Royal Embassy of 

Schroders plc 

Scottish Natural Heritage 

Singapore, High Commission of 

Slovak Republic, Embassy 

of the 

Slovenia, Embassy of the 

Republic of 

Sonatrach Petroleum 

Corporation 

South African Breweries 

South Africa, 

High Commission of 

Spain, Embassy of 

Standard Life Assurance 

Company 

State Street Bank and 

Trust Company 

Statoil (UK) Ltd 

Stephenson Harwood 

Stirling Ltd 

Sudan, Embassy of the 

Republic of 

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking 

Corporation 

Sweden, Embassy of 

Switzerland, Embassy of 

Taipei Representative office 

Tearfund 

Tehran International Studies 

Research Institute 

Texaco Ltd 

Tibet Information Network 

Times Newspapers Ltd 

Tokyo Electric Power 

Tokyo Stock Exchange 

(London) 

Toronto Star Newspaper Ltd 

Toshiba of Europe Ltd 

TotalFinaElf plc 

Tunisia, Embassy of 

Turkey, Embassy of 

UBS Warburg 

United Arab Emirates, 

Embassy of the 

United States of America, 

Embassy of the 

Universities Superannuation 

Scheme Ltd 

URENCO Ltd 

Uzbekistan, Embassy of the 

Republic of 

VERTIC 

Vietnam, Embassy of the 

Socialist Republic of 

Wilmer Cutler and Pickering 

Wilton Park 

World Bank (London) 

World Gold Council 

World Nuclear Association 

Yemen, Embassy of the 

Republic of 

Yomiuri Shimbun

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