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Founder(s) | Herman Kahn |
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Type | Think tank |
Founded | 1961 |
Headquarters | 1015 Fifteenth Street, NW Washington, D.C., United States |
Origins | RAND Corporation |
Area served | United States of America |
Revenue | $10,000,000+[1] |
Employees | 70+ |
Motto | Celebrating a half century of forging ideas that promote security, prosperity, and freedom |
Website | www.hudson.org |
The Hudson Institute is an American conservative non-profit think tank based in Washington D.C.[2] It was founded in 1961 in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, by futurist, military strategist, and systems theorist Herman Kahn and his colleagues at the RAND Corporation.
The Institute is committed to innovative research and analysis that promotes ‘global security, prosperity and freedom’.[3] It promotes public policy change in accordance with its stated values:
The Capital Research Center,[5] gives Hudson a 7 on its ideological spectrum (8 is "Free Market Right" and 1 is "Radical Left").[6]
In March 2011, Kenneth R. Weinstein was appointed president and CEO of the institute replacing Herbert London.[4]