The Policy Group is designed to specifically address the policy implications for the UK of the sustainable security analysis and our regional consultations in particular. Made up of Lords and former MPs, ministers, diplomats and civil servants, this group meets several times a year to develop the sustainable security analysis into workable policies.

The current members of the group are:

• David Broucher, independent analyst and former British Ambassador to the Czech Republic and British Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament
• Professor Malcolm Chalmers, Professorial Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, Professor of International Politics at the University of Bradford, and former Special Adviser to Foreign Secretaries Jack Straw MP and Margaret Beckett MP
• Philippa Drew, former Director of Global Issues in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office
• Ian Kearns, Specialist Adviser to the Joint House of Commons/House of Lords Committee on National Security, Senior Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and Senior Analyst at the British American Security Information Council
• Lord King of Bridgwater, former Secretary of State for the Environment, Northern Ireland and Defence, Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee, and Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party's National and International Security Policy Group
• Nick Mabey, Chief Executive of E3G and former Senior Adviser in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit
• Sir David Omand, Visiting Professor at King's College London and former Permanent Secretary Home Office and UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator in the Cabinet Office 
• Rear Admiral Chris Parry, former Director General of the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre in the Ministry of Defence 
• Malcolm Savidge, former Labour MP and Convenor of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Security and Non-proliferation