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The Cambridge Security Initiative

fresh thinking and cutting-edge international expertise

CSi, chaired by Sir Richard Dearlove, former Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, provides a unique link between the worlds of business, government and academia. With unrivalled expertise in security and intelligence issues, the organisation integrates long-term historical trends with the experience of security professionals to deliver prescient analysis of current and future threats to  clients and to its signature ‘International Security and Intelligence’ (ISI) Programme and Conference.

Announcements

ISI Summer Programme 2026

The Cambridge Security Initiative & The Department of War Studies, King’s College London are delighted to announce that applications are now open for the International Security and Intelligence Programme 2026. Full details can be found here.

ISI Professional 2026

ISI Pro applications for spring 2026 are now open. Designed for mid- to senior-level professionals from government, business, the military, intelligence and law enforcement, international organisations, and academia. Full details can be found here.

CSi 2017

The objects of the charity are to advance education in relation to international security and intelligence issues through research, provision of educational programmes and collaborations in intelligence studies, teaching and research with national and international universities, the government of the UK and other nations. Public Benefit.The charity, established in 2017, offers unique educational programmes in Cambridge. The purposes of these programme are two-fold: to provide an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students and early-career professionals with an intellectual or professional interest in statecraft and the interlocking themes of intelligence, security, defence and foreign policy to meet and work with leading academics from Cambridge, the UK and the international community and with practitioners from the intelligence and security worlds to examine the diverse and complex challenges faced by Western democracies. Secondly, through the provision of funding, to promote the study and understanding of intelligence and security issues in UK universities.The Cambridge Security Initiative contracts with Cambridge Colleges for the use of facilities: this event otherwise has no direct connection or association with the University of Cambridge or its Colleges. CSi is a registered charity with the UK Charity Commission; no.1175201.