Hakluyt & Company is a British strategic intelligence and advisory firm. The company was founded in 1995 by Christopher James and Mike Reynolds. James retired in mid-2006, and was replaced as managing director by Keith Craig. Hakluyt is headquartered in London and has subsidiary offices in Singapore and New York.

Hakluyt assiduously avoids publicity, but is widely regarded as having a reputation for discretion and effectiveness among its blue-chip client base.

Hakluyt is chaired by former CEO and chairman of Unilever Niall FitzGerald

Niall FitzGerald

Niall FitzGerald, KBE is an Irish businessman. FitzGerald grew up in Limerick, Ireland and was educated at St Munchin's College in Limerick. He graduated with a degree in Commerce from University College Dublin...

, and the other members of the board are managing director Keith Craig, Sir Kieran Prendergast, Robert Webb QC and Mark Getty

Mark Getty

Mark Getty , is a British businessman. A member of a family which originally made its money from oil, he is the son of American-British billionaire philanthropist Sir Paul Getty.-Career:...

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The Hakluyt International Advisory Board

Hakluyt's international advisory board comprises senior figures with backgrounds in business and government. Current members include:

• Professor Sir Roy M. Anderson  — Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and former Rector of Imperial College London
• Don Argus
  Don Argus
  Donald Robert Argus AC is an Australian businessman, and the former chairman of BHP Billiton and Brambles. He stepped down as Chairman in favour of Jacques Nasser in 2010....
  
   — former chairman of BHP Billiton
  BHP Billiton
  BHP Billiton is a global mining, oil and gas company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and with a major management office in London, United Kingdom...
  
  
• M S Banga
  M S Banga
  Manvinder Singh Banga is a senior partner at the private equity fund Clayton Dubilier & Rice. He was previously a senior executive at Unilever as the Global President for Foods, Home & Personal Care - running all the categories, and was the lead internal candidate for the CEO position...
  
   — senior partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
• Bill Bradley
  Bill Bradley
  William Warren "Bill" Bradley is an American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former three-term Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party's nomination for President in the 2000 election.Bradley was born and raised in a suburb of St....
  
   — managing director at Allen & Company
  Allen & Company
  Allen & Company is a boutique investment bank based at 711 Fifth Avenue, New York City.-History:Founded in 1922 by Charles Robert Allen, Jr., he was soon joined by his brother, Herbert A. Allen, Sr...
  
   and former three-term US Senator
• Alexander Downer
  Alexander Downer
  Alexander John Gosse Downer is a former Australian Liberal Party politician who was Foreign Minister of Australia from March 1996 to December 2007, the longest-serving in Australian history...
  
   — Foreign Minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007
• Neville Isdell — former chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company
  The Coca-Cola Company
  The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage corporation and manufacturer, retailer and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia...
  
  
• Dr Hans-Peter Keitel — former CEO of Hochtief
  Hochtief
  Hochtief Aktiengesellschaft is Germany's largest construction company. It is based in Essen but operates globally, ranking as the top general builder in the United States through its Turner Corporation subsidiary, and in Australia through the Leighton Group. In 2010 it employed more than 70,000...
  
  , and president of the Federation of German Industries
• Minoru Makihara — former chairman of Mitsubishi Corporation
  Mitsubishi Corporation
  is Japan's largest trading company , a member of the Mitsubishi keiretsu. Mitsubishi Corporation employs over 50,000 people and has seven business segments including finance, banking, energy, machinery, chemicals, food and more....
  
  
• Sir David Manning - British Ambassador to the United States from 2003 to 2007
• Sir Kieran Prendergast — former Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs at the United Nations
• Sir William Purves — former chairman of HSBC
  HSBC
  HSBC Holdings plc is a global banking and financial services company headquartered in Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom. it is the world's second-largest banking and financial services group and second-largest public company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine...
  
  
• Sir Ralph Robins
  Ralph Robins
  Sir Ralph Robins was the CEO of Rolls-Royce. He served 20 years on the board of Rolls-Royce, retiring in 2003 after 10 years as chairman.He graduated from Imperial College London and joined Rolls-Royce as a graduate apprentice in 1955...
  
   — former chairman of Rolls-Royce plc
  Rolls-Royce plc
  Rolls-Royce Group plc is a global power systems company headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s second-largest maker of aircraft engines , and also has major businesses in the marine propulsion and energy sectors. Through its defence-related activities...
  
  
• Javier Solana
  Javier Solana
  Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga, KOGF is a Spanish physicist and Socialist politician. After serving in the Spanish government under Felipe González and Secretary General of NATO , he was appointed the European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary...
  
  — former NATO Secretary General and EU Foreign Minister