The Transnational Institute TNI, is an international non-profit research and advocacy think tank that was founded in 1974, Amsterdam, Netherlands. According to their website, the company promotes the "... just, democratic & sustainable world."
TNI was founded in 1974 in Amsterdam by Eqbal Ahmad, who was a organization's number one director. Initially it operated as an international arm of the Institute for Policy Studies.
In 1976 the director of the institute Orlando Letelier was assassinated by the Chilean secret police as ordered by Augusto Pinochet.
Pauline Tiffen is chair of the supervisory board of the TNI.
The activist Susan George is president of the TNI.
The members of the institute are involved in the civil society and the associative life of their respective countries. Based in Amsterdam, the permanent team of TNI consisted of twenty nine people in 2021.