Robin Niblett is Distinguished Fellow at Chatham House, having been its Director and CEO until 2022. He is a recognised expert on the relations between Europe, the United States and Asia and their implications for risk management by governments and private institutions.

He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Asia Society Policy Institute and a Senior Adviser to the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Geopolitics and its Co-Chair (2020-22). He is also a member of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCDO) group of experts.

Prior to his time at Chatham House, he was Executive Vice President at CSIS and he also served as Director of the CSIS Europe Programme and its Initiative for a Renewed Transatlantic Partnership (2001-06).

He was a Special Advisor to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee from 2015 to 2017. He also chaired the Experts Group for the 2014 NATO Summit in Wales and was Chair of the British Academy’s Steering Committee of Languages for Security Project. From 2010 to 2020, he was a Non-Executive Director of the Fidelity European Values Investment Trust.

He holds a PhD and MA in International Relations and a BA in Modern Languages from New College, Oxford. In 2015 he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG).