CICERO is run by a three-officer executive board and governed by a Board of Trustees. Every research commitment the institute makes passes through both.
The executive board carries the institute day to day and answers to the Board of Trustees for everything it publishes.
Leads CICERO's day-to-day operation and the execution of the research agenda — from field research design and case selection through to the publication of working papers and policy briefs. Dr. Christy holds the institute to a single standard: every finding must survive both peer review and the pressure of a live negotiating room.
Stewards the foundation's capital, grant architecture, and programme budgets. Rama builds the financial discipline that keeps CICERO's research non-partisan and its funding transparent — including the endowment logic behind the Future Fixer scholarship.
Translates dense quantitative work into arguments that move ministries, courts, boardrooms, and newsrooms. Ananda runs CICERO's dissemination engine: the symposia, national and international FGDs, and the public-facing editorial programme.
The Board of Trustees sets the intellectual agenda and guards the independence of the research programme.
As Chairman, Vincent Ricardo sets the institute's intellectual agenda — steering CICERO away from the narrative diplomacy that dominates conventional international-relations work and toward a practice built on the economic analysis of law, game theory, and causal inference. He holds the institute to a single premise: that conflict is not an accident of temperament but a structure that can be measured, modelled, and re-engineered. He convenes the Board of Trustees, guards the independence of the research programme, and oversees CICERO's long-horizon commitments: the indexed journal, the Future Fixer scholarship, and the build-out of the cloud and AI laboratory that maps conflict trends across regional, national, and international arenas.
Holds the foundation's highest authority: appoints and dismisses the executive board, approves the statutes, and ratifies the long-horizon research agenda.
Runs the institute: research execution, publication, convening, finance, and communication. Accountable to the Board of Trustees for everything CICERO publishes and commits to.
