Centre for International Governance Innovation
The CIGI campus | |
| Abbreviation | CIGI |
|---|---|
| Formation | 2001 |
| Type | International think tank on global governance |
| Purpose | Generating ideas for multilateral governance improvements |
| Headquarters | 67 Erb Street West |
| Location | |
President | Paul Samson |
| Website | cigionline |
The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI, pronounced "see-jee") is an independent, non-partisan think tank on global governance. CIGI supports research, forms networks, advances policy debate and generates ideas for multilateral governance improvements. CIGI's interdisciplinary work includes collaboration with policy, business and academic communities around the world.
CIGI ranked among the top 12 global think-tanks in the categories of "AI Policy and Strategy Think Tanks" and "Top Science and Technology Policy Think Tanks", and 30th globally among the "Top Thinks Worldwide" in the Global Go To Think Tank Index, 2020. In 2025, during Canada’s G7 Presidency, CIGI organized the Think7 (T7) process and hosted the T7 Summit at its Waterloo campus. T7 is the official engagement group of think tanks that provides research-based policy recommendations to the G7 Presidency.
Until September 2014, CIGI was headquartered in the former Seagram Museum in the uptown district of Waterloo, Ontario. It is now situated in the CIGI Campus, which also houses the CIGI Auditorium and the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA).