Center for Strategic and International Studies
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a Washington, D.C-based foreign policy think tank. It has roughly 190 staff members, and a budget of $2222 million. The current leader is John Hamre, a former Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Structure
Hamre has been President and CEO of the Center since April of 2000; the Center is guided by a 19-member board of trustees, which is chaired by Sam Nunn, the former Georgia Senator who was the longtime chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Defense. Other notable trustees include Henry Kissinger, William Cohen, and Brent Scowcroft--some of the most prominent names in U.S. foreign policy. CSIS is bipartisan.
85% of the Center's budget comes from donations; the remainder is from its endowment, or from income earned by the Center.
CSIS looks at all aspects of foreign and defense policy; it specializes in what it calls "looking over the horizon", examining the long-term effects of demographic change, technological change, and other areas. CSIS tries to project into the future the impacts of these ongoing changes, in order to guide policymakers in the present time. CSIS also maintains experts on major world regions, such as the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and so on.Goals and description