WHO WE ARE
The GIE Foundation was founded in 2024 to examine some of the most pressing geopolitical issues of our time, through rigorous, evidence-driven research and targeted, effective advocacy.
Our mission is to conduct independent research and shape policy and public opinion, in service of human flourishing and long-term global stability and sustainability. We focus our research on emerging, long-term, impactful and underappreciated topics, and we provide insights and policy solutions on those topics.
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OUR COMMITMENTS
We have a commitment to independent research and to impact in our advocacy.
We draw on the analytical ethos of effective altruism by prioritizing research topics that score highly on the INT framework: 'Importance', 'Neglectedness', and 'Tractability'. We believe our most valuable contributions come from identifying areas where new thinking and targeted, coordinated action can reduce global risks or positively influence policy or narratives.
We believe that a deeper understanding of geopolitical systems should reduce risks of conflict and instability, and expand opportunities for peaceful innovation, sustainability, open societies, and equitable global development.
We have an international and interdisciplinary team of researchers, contributors and experts, with a global perspective.
OUR WORK
We provide independent, actionable research, long-horizon analysis, and fresh conceptual frameworks for governments, policymakers, civil society, and emerging leaders.
We choose topics by impact, through our INT framework, using subjects as guides. Broadly, we focus on:
Infrastructure and technological systems
Environmental, energy and resource geopolitics
Territoriality, defense and power systems
Political geography of identity and population
Each is selected to illuminate critical, underexplored drivers of global risk and opportunity.
GIE Foundation’s goal is to create a trusted platform which provides research and insight on complex global issues. We highlight hidden leverage points, clarify dynamics in global challenges, and try to empower better decision-making and policy. Our work - our research and our advocacy - tries to make the future more peaceful, more cooperative, more sustainable, and more free.