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Registered charity · London

The International Institute for Strategic Studies

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £32m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
City Of London, Bahrain, India, Singapore and more
Website
www.iiss.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The International Institute for Strategic Studies
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£32m£30m
  • 2024£27m£25m
  • 2023£25m£25m
Earlier years
  • 2022£25m£24m
  • 2021£18m£18m
Charitable objects

A)TO PROMOTE ON A NON-PARTY BASIS THE STUDY AND DISCUSSION OF AND THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION UPON ANY MAJOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THOSE OF A POLITICAL, STRATEGIC, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL OR ECOLOGICAL NATUREB) TO PROMOTE CONFLICT RESOLUTION BY FACILITATING DISCUSSION & DIALOGUE & PUBLISHING ANALYSIS ON MAJOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES TO ASSIST & PROMOTE THE RESOLUTION OF CONFLICTS BETWEEN OR WITHIN NATIONS.

Board analysis for researchers

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

12 trustees on the board

4.9y median 4y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

11
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 12General Charitable Purposes 12Other Charitable Purposes 12

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Tech and media 12Finance 4Professional services 4

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£26.5m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

4.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 3.8 in 2020

163 from 133 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
6%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
206504
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 20TH NOVEMBER 1958 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 12TH AUGUST 1971, 14TH JULY 1987, 15TH JULY 1992, 10TH SEPTEMBER 1994 AND 19TH FEBRUARY 2008. as amended on 02 May 2019
Companies House
Company number 00615259 · Active
Contact on the register
02073797676 · accounts@iiss.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
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