Robin Niblett

Biography

Sir Robin Niblett was Director and Chief Executive of the internationally respected foreign affairs think tank Chatham House, where he is now a Distinguished Fellow. Before serving for over a decade at Chatham House, he was Executive Vice-President and COO of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). During his last two years at CSIS, he also served as director of the CSIS Europe Programme and its Initiative for a Renewed Transatlantic Partnership. Robin is one of the leading authorities on the risk and nature of political, commercial and diplomatic relationships between the US, Europe and Asia.

A regular contributor to the media on US/Europe relations, Robin has written for, amongst others, the Financial Times, The Washington Post, Daily Telegraph, and The Guardian. He has given evidence at defence and foreign affairs committees in the UK Parliament and US Senate. He was co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Geopolitics, and served as chair of the Experts Group for the 2014 NATO Summit. He also chaired the British Academy’s Steering Committee of Languages for Security Project, and continues to advise public and private sector organisations. He is the author of The New Cold War: How the Contest Between the US and China Will Shape Our Century, exploring the complexities of the economic, political and security rivalries between to the two global powers, and also After America: The End of the Old Order and the Rise of the Middle Powers which looks at a new world where countries such as Brazil, UK, India and Japan have the potential to take up a global role largely abandoned by the bigger powers.