Welcome to
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
ISI Professional 2027
This programme will be held in Spring 2027, it is specifically designed for mid- to senior-level professionals from government, business, the military, intelligence and law enforcement, international organisations, and academia. To register your interest, please click here.
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.