CIGI is an independent, non-partisan think tank whose peer-reviewed research, foresight and trusted analysis influence policy makers to innovate.

January 15, 2024 (Waterloo, Canada) – The Centre for International Governance Innovation is pleased to welcome 14 new fellows to the Digital Policy Hub.These emerging scholars and innovative thinkers from the social, natural and applied sciences will join nine fellows continuing from the fall 2023 term to form an even larger and more diverse cohort of 23 fellows for the Hub’s winter 2024 term.

Explore a year of research, opinion and expertise in CIGI’s interactive annual report.

3 days ago · January 27, 2025 (Waterloo, Canada) — The global threat landscape is growing increasingly complex, with hostile states using every instrument of national power — diplomatic, informational, military and economic (DIME) — to target allied governments, industries, research institutions and civic organizations. Through aggressive, illegal and illicit tactics, these states aim to destabilize ...

September 10, 2024 (Waterloo, Canada) – The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) is pleased to welcome 17 new and six returning fellows to CIGI’s Digital Policy Hub for the 2024-2025 academic year. Launched in 2023, the Digital Policy Hub is a collaborative space for emerging scholars and innovative thinkers to share and develop research on the evolution and governance of ...

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The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) is an independent, non-partisan think tank whose peer-reviewed research, foresight and trusted analysis influence policy makers to innovate. With the engagement of a global network of …

Research Focus Areas and Approaches. Transformative technologies are rapidly reshaping our world. Many are widely known — although often not well understood (for example, new hyper-connected social media platforms such as TikTok, mRNA vaccines, electric vehicles, blockchain, quantum computing and artificial intelligence large language models).

We invite you to take a look back at CIGI’s work in 2023–2024. The pace and range of technological advancement, a rapidly changing geopolitical environment and global uncertainty continued to pose challenges for international governance this year — CIGI’s fellows and contributors provided research, insight and analysis on these and other pressing issues.

Jun 8, 2023 · The Centre for International Governance Innovation, CIGI, is an independent, non-partisan think tank that delivers peer-reviewed research and trusted analysis to inform policy solutions on issues that intersect transformative technologies and governance.