The new Executive Director is Polish national Witold d’Humilly de Chevilly, while Robert Tyler will serve as the new Senior Policy Advisor.

New direction regularly hosts high-profile speakers including leading politicians and policy experts for panel discussions, interviews, roundtables, seminars, conferences, and public events in Europe, America, Asia and Africa.

It publishes on topics including the Eurozone, finance and the economy; energy and the environment, defence, foreign policy and security; accountability, transparency and efficiency; immigration, justice and society; and transatlantic relations.

[9] The New Direction Liberty Award was created to honour people who have "rendered outstanding services to political culture, freedom and civil society."

[10] Recipients of the award have included the former Head of British Military Intelligence in West Germany, Brigadier Geoffrey Van Orden MEP, and Professor Dr Gunnar Heinsohn.