Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
| Abbreviation | TBI |
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| Formation | 1 December 2016 |
| Founder | Tony Blair |
| Type | Private company limited by guarantee |
| Registration no. | 10505963 |
| Headquarters | One Bartholomew Close, London |
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| Expenses | £48,272,000 (2020) |
| Staff | 1,000 + (2025) |
| Website | institute |
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| Genre | Political Influencing |
| Subscribers | 15.6 thousand |
| Views | 1.67 million |
| Last updated: October 2025 | |
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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First ministry and term (May 1997 – June 2001)
Second ministry and term (June 2001 – May 2005)
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The Tony Blair Institute, known by its trade name, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and the abbreviation TBI, is a think tank and consultancy firm founded in 2016 by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
TBI advises politicians, governments and businesses on strategy and policy, and promotes a particular focus on the role of technology in politics. This has included studies into public perception of AI and ID cards, working closely with technology leaders such as Oracle Corporation's Larry Ellison, to empower closer ties between government, public entities and private companies. Ellison's own foundation has also donated at least £257m to the Tony Blair Institute.
Amongst its clients are the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which TBI continued to work with in the wake of the murder of Saudi dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, as well as Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Indonesia.
Much of the institute's work focuses on the politics of neoliberalism, of which Tony Blair was a major proponent as prime minister of the UK between 1997 and 2007.
During Donald Trump's second term, the TBI worked closely with the President and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to develop a plan for the reconstruction of Gaza. This caused significant controversy in 2025, when staff from the institute contributed to a study which promoted the idea of paying Palestinians to leave their land and which coincided with multiple NGOs, academics and lawyers declaring that Israel was committing a genocide in Palestine.
In 2023, the institute reported an annual revenue of $140 million, was providing advice to more than 40 governments around the world, and was projected to grow its staff numbers to more than 1,000 people before the end of 2024.