The Cambridge Security Initiative

ISI 2025

Building on the experience and success of the International Security and Intelligence Programme (ISI) in recent years, we are delighted to be able to launch ISI 2025. Applications are now open and look forward to hearing from many of you who have already expressed an interest.

Breaking news – new ISI Programmes for 2025

In response to the many requests we receive for both shorter and longer courses, we are also very pleased to announce that next year we will be adding two new Programmes to our portfolio.

The first of these, a two-week stand-alone programme,  will be held at Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 30 March to 12 April 2025 and is aimed primarily at professionals with a keen interest in exploring pressing global security challenges and their implications for business, governments and citizens and in meeting others who share such interests.

The second, also at Emmanuel, will explore similar themes and will be aimed at a similar audience while also offering a natural follow-on to any students of ISI 2025 who wish to stay for a full 6 weeks in Cambridge and an opportunity for earlier ISI graduates to return. More information about both of these will follow shortly.

The ISI-PRO will be held at Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 30 March 2025 to 12 April 2025 and is aimed primarily at professionals with a keen interest in exploring pressing global security challenges and their implications for business, governments and citizens and in meeting others who share such interests. This course may also be paired with the foundational 4 week ISI course.

A unique programme held in Cambridge every summer, aimed at students and professionals with an interest in intelligence and contemporary security threats. CSi offers scholarship and bursaries to students working in the intelligence and security fields.

 CSi’s annual Cambridge conference, ‘Intelligence and National Security Policy in a Changing World’, brings together speakers and delegates from governments, security agencies, academia and business to explore a range of current security-related issues.

 Commissioned analysis has typically been sought by clients requiring professional, up-to-the-minute briefings focussed on specific regions or business sectors on which to base key assessments of future risks, options, and opportunities. To achieve this, CSi has brought together a bespoke team of experts who, while varying in age, nationality, and profession, share the ability to contribute significant, contemporary, and often unique insights to written reports overseen, edited and signed off by the Directors. Recent clients have included UK and US government agencies, management consultants, international accountancy and finance firms. Looking forward, the work of the CSi is attracting strong interest from organisations with international interests in banking, law, infrastructure, energy and utilities.