IISS Sources of Funding Statement
The IISS generates income to fund its research and operations from a wide variety of sources including governments, foundations, private companies and individuals. It sells publications and membership packages, convenes major conferences with host-nation and private-sector support, and bids successfully for research grants.
In all dealings with potential funders, we insist clearly and consistently that we will not accept any funding that may impinge on our intellectual and political independence. This is never a matter for negotiation. The IISS alone determines the agenda of its conferences, the speakers at its events, the shape of its research work, the direction of its analysis and the nature of its conclusions.
It is a core policy of the IISS continually to broaden and deepen its funding streams. This is consistent with the Institute’s desire to firmly maintain its independence, provide rigorous analysis from an international perspective and to offer a valued meeting point for para-diplomatic activity and defence diplomacy.
The IISS receives conference support from host governments in the Middle East, Latin America and Asia for major international inter-governmental Dialogues that we have held in Bahrain, Colombia and Singapore.
Below is a list of other governments, corporations, foundations and individuals from whom the IISS drew its principal income in the last two fiscal years ended on 30 September 2015 & 2016. Income brackets are amounts received per annum.
Over £500,000
EU Non Proliferation Consortium
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK
Taylor & Francis Group
Individual Membership Subscriptions (from nearly 1,700 members worldwide as at 30 September 2016)
£100,000 to £499,999
Airbus Group
BAE Systems Plc
Boeing
Carnegie Corporation New York
Fullerton Hotel Singapore
HSBC Plc
Lockheed Martin Corporation
MacArthur Foundation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sultanate of Brunei
Mitsubishi Corporation
Modi Enterprises
Near East South Asia Centre (NESA), National Defence University
Northrop Grumman
Open Society Foundation
UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation Office (MOS)
Wockhardt
£25,000 to £99,999
Abraaj Capital
Booz Allen Hamilton
BP International Ltd
British American Tobacco
Caracol Television S.A
Center for International and Sustainable Development (CIRSD)
Chevron
DRS Technologies
E Oppenheimer & Son International Ltd
Embassy of Brazil
Executive Affairs Authority - Abu Dhabi
ExxonMobil
Federal Ministry of Defence Germany
Henkel, AG & Co. KGaA
International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI)
Japan Bank for International Cooperation
MBDA UK Ltd
Ministry of Defence, UK
Ministry of Defense, Japan
Ministry of Defense, Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore
NATO
Notenstein Private Bank Limited
OCI NV
Ploughshares Fund
Raytheon International Inc.
Reliance Industries Ltd
Robert and Ardis James Foundation
Saab AB
Shell International Ltd
Singapore Technologies
Somerset Zhong Beikjing (previously The Asahi Shimbun)
Statoil (UK) Ltd
Swiss Confederation
Swiss Federal Office of Energy
Temasek International Pte Ltd
The Cohen Group
Total S.A.
US Friends of the IISS
Wallenberg Foundations AB
£1,000 to £24,999
ADAMS Offshore WLL
Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)
Australian High Commission
Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
British Army
British High Commission Islamabad
British High Commission, Singapore
Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office (CIRO), Japan
Cabinet Office
Canadian High Commission
Capital Group Companies
Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales
CEDS Ltd
Centre for Environment and Development Studies, Japan
Centro de Estudos Estratégicos do Exército, Brazil (CEEEx)
Chartwell Speakers
Chilean Army Centre for Research and Military Studies
Chilean Army War Academy
China Institute of International Studies (CIIS)
Chinese Embassy
CIC Information Services Co., Ltd
Comando Interforze Per Le Operazioni Delle Forze Speciali (COFS)
Crest Investment Company
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
Defence Forces Ireland
Department for International Development
Department of Foreign, Trade and Development of Canada
Department of War Studies, King’s College London
Embassy of Belgium
Embassy of China
Embassy of Egypt
Embassy of Estonia
Embassy of Finland
Embassy of France
Embassy of Israel
Embassy of Japan
Embassy of Romania
Embassy of Sweden
Embassy of the Czech Republic
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Embassy of the Republic of Korea
Embassy of the Republic of Poland
Embassy of the Republic of Turkey
Embassy of the Russian Federation
Embassy of the Slovak Republic
Embassy of the State of Kuwait
Embassy of the State of Qatar
Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman
Embassy of the United Arab Emirates
European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)
European Union Satellite Centre (EUSC)
Federal Foreign Office, The Federal Republic of Germany
Fujisankei Communications International Inc.
German Business Protection (GBP)
High Commission for Pakistan
Himachal Futuristic Communications Limited
HM Revenue and Customs
House of Commons Library
Indian High Commission
Indian Navy
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)
Institute for Strategic Studies Mongolia
Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia
International Committee of the Red Cross
Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO)
Japan Institute for National Fundamentals (JINF)
Japan International Cooperation Agency
Jetro London
Joint Forces Military University Library
Korea Institute for Defense Analyses (KIDA)
KPMG
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. KG
Kyodo News Agency
Library, The Sejong Institute
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Lowy Institute for International Policy
Mainichi Newspapers
Merifin Capital
Military Academy at ETH Zurich (MILAK)
Ministère de la Défense (France)
Ministerio de Defensa (Spain)
Ministerstvo Obrany (Czech Republic)
Ministry of Defence, Denmark
Ministry of Defence, Slovenia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands
Mitsui & Co. Europe Plc
Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute
Mizuho Corporate Bank
Mizuho International Plc
Mizuho Securities (Singapore)
Montrose Associates
Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International Studies
N M Rothschild & Sons Ltd
National Crime Agency (NCA), UK
National Defence College, Nigeria
National Defence University of Malaysia
National Defence University, Finland
National Defense Academy, Japan
National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), Japan
National Police Agency, Japan
National Security Council, Taiwan
NATO Defense College (NDC)
NATO Intelligence Fusion Centre
NATO Parliamentary Assembly
New Zealand High Commission
NHK – Japan Broadcasting Corporation
Nomura International (Hong Kong) Ltd
Nomura Investment Forum Asia
Non-proliferation Policy Education Center
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM)
Nuri Holdings (S) Pte Ltd
Office of National Assessments (ONA), Australia
Omarco Network Systems (Holdings) Limited
Overseas Union Enterprise Ltd
Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Pearson
Pennsylvania State University Libraries
Qatar Petroleum International
Research Center on International Politics and Conflict Resolution, Italy
Research Institute for International Affairs, Korea
Research Institute for National Security Affairs (RINSA), Korea
Rokos Capital Management LLP
Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS)
Royal Danish Embassy
Royal Norwegian Embassy
Royal Norwegian Naval Academy
S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, NTU
Sanoma Media Finland, Helsingin Sanomat
Saudi Military Attaché (Saudi Embassy)
South African High Commission
Sun Pharmaceuticals Limited
Swiss Federal Department for Foreign Affairs
TEAS – The European Azerbaijan Society
The Deane Group
The Economist
The Eranda Foundation
The Guardian
The Olayan Group
The Times
Tokyo Foundation
UK Defence Solutions Centre
UNICEF – UK
United States Embassy
US–UAE Business Council
US Embassy, Singapore