Director transitions: Unavoidable and necessary
“I’ve been in this job for too long. I’ve run out of ideas.” This is the unfortunate confession of the director of a think tank I met in Serbia a few years ago. The organisation had...
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Director’s profiles and how to replace them
Leandro Echt has published an interesting synthesis of think tank directors' background, profiles and qualities via Politics and Ideas. I reproduce some key points here but encourage you to...
Dr Asep Suryahadi, Executive Director of SMERU (Indonesia)
Back in 2011, SMERU hosted On Think Tanks for a couple of weeks in Jakarta. We had the opportunity to learn first hand about the organisation, its challenges and...
Who should be the next director of the Overseas Development Institute?
Only three years after I participated in the hiring of ODI’s new director, the organisation is back where it started: looking for a replacement. With the benefit of...
Nicolás Ducoté, Executive Director at CIPPEC (Part 2 of 2)
This is the first part of a two-part interview Nicolás Ducoté (CIPPEC’s co-founder and former Executive Director and General Director). You can read the first...
Nicolás Ducoté, Executive Director at CIPPEC (Part 1 of 2)
This is the first part of a two-part interview Nicolás Ducoté (CIPPEC’s co-founder and former Executive Director and General Director). Continuing our effort to...
Female think tank leaders around the world
We have been compiling a list of think tanks led by women around the world. If we went by the number of women in think tank gatherings one would find it easy to assume that women have had...
New blood means new challenges for U.S. think tanks
Allen McDuffee of the Washington Post´s blog Think Tanked has recently written a piece on how the presidents of several large American think tanks such as the Heritage...
What keeps think tank directors up at night? reflections on funding, staffing, governance, communications and M&E
Over the last year or so I've been discussing challenges (as well as opportunities) with many think tank bosses and their funders. From time to time I've published a...
Avoiding Founder Failure: A few insights and tips relevant to think tanks
I came across this list of tips for avoiding founder failure that I think may be relevant to many think tanks. Last month I visited the Belgrade Centre for Security...
Rohinton Medhora appointed incoming president of CIGI
This blog has always strived to provide useful information about think tank for think tanks. Announcements like these are important (if you would like me to forward...
A Latin American policy entrepreneur: Orazio Bellettini, Executive Director of Grupo FARO
Orazio Bellettini is the Executive Director of Grupo FARO, an Ecuadorian think tank, which he co-founded. He is a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard...
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