The World Policy Institute, a non-partisan source of informed policy leadership for more than four decades, develops and champions innovative policies that require a progressive and global point of view. In an increasingly interdependent world, WPI focuses on complex challenges that demand cooperative policy solutions to achieve: an inclusive and sustainable global market economy, engaged global civic participation and effective governance, and collaborative approaches to national and global security.

WPI’s Fellows program, regular public and private events, collaborative policy development, media activities, and flagship World Policy Journal provide a forum for solution-focused policy analysis and public debate. Its programs seek to introduce fresh ideas and new voices from around the world on critical shared global issues including migration, climate change, technology, economic development, human rights, and counter-terrorism.

More than 30 senior fellows and program staff—a group of accomplished policy analysts, journalists and writers—give the institute a distinctive voice in national and international affairs.

Founded in 1961, the World Policy Institute has been operating under its current name since 1982. WPI was founded in 1948 in Washington, D.C. as the Association for Education in World Government. In 1952, it became the Institute for International Government, then was renamed the Institute for International Order in 1954. It was reconstituted in 1973 as the Institute for World Order before becoming the World Policy Institute in 1982. In 1991, it joined The New School. In 2007, it was re-established as an autonomous organization working in partnership with The New School. Also in 2007, it established a strategic partnership with Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action.