Think Tanks

Think Tanks are intellectual bodies that spend its considerable intellectual capital on issues that matter to life. Think tanks aren't terribly new phenomenon. One of history's greatest thinkers, Plato, founded what some consider the world's first think tank: The Academy. Plato's Academy was located in a garden just outside ancient Athens where he and other scholars discussed a variety of philosophical issues. Fast-forward to 1831 when Great Britain's Duke of Wellington established the Royal United Services Institution. Across the pond, the first international affairs think tank sprouted in the United States in 1910 with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.