[8] Hakluyt's international advisory board is chaired by Niall FitzGerald, former deputy chairman of Thomson Reuters UK and an adviser to Morgan Stanley.

[9] Other board members have included Kieran Prendergast, former Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs at the United Nations; John Rose, former Rolls-Royce chief executive; Robert Webb, former BBC Worldwide chairman; and E. Neville Isdell, former chair of The Coca-Cola Company.

[10] Hakluyt has established a network of operatives throughout the world who provide it with intelligence on commercial or political issues of interest to its clients.

The Evening Standard wrote in 2012 that "Spies preparing for retirement are approached discreetly in St James’s clubs and asked if they would like some lucrative freelance action to top up their pensions".

[8] In 2001, The Sunday Times reported that oil companies Shell and BP hired Hakluyt to collect information on the environmental group Greenpeace.