The IFF Institute is an international and professional think-tank and research network that operates directly under IFF's instruction. Committed to maintaining and improving the international financial order and promoting peace, inclusiveness and sustainable development of the world, the IFF Institute conducts high-level non-governmental dialogues and researches that are pragmatic and constructive based on equality and multilateralism. The Institute aims to build an independent, transparent, non-profit and non-governmental think-tank that is based in China and other emerging economies, and provides world-class and professional services. As a platform for strategic research, academic exchange and public diplomacy, the Institute will exert its influence and give full play to its role to help the world know China better, and vice versa. 

The IFF Institute focuses on research and communication in international economics and finance, with an aim to deepen multinational dialogues on major global financial issues, explore win-win solutions for closer global financial cooperation, and propel the reform of the international financial system. To achieve such missions, the Institute has formed an international communication network by establishing research centers in major cities including Beijing, Hong Kong, New York, Washington D.C., London and Toronto. In addition, the IFF Institute carries out events in collaboration with the IFF headquarters in Beijing and Guangzhou, fully leveraging its resources pooled since its establishment, including hundreds of policy-makers in the field of politics, finance and economics, leaders of international organisations and large financial institutions, experts and scholars from world-renowned research institutions (which includes more than 10 Nobel laureates in Economics around the globe), as well as its global financial communication and cooperation networks with over 50 international and regional partnership organisations in more than 50 countries and regions.

Apart from building an international and professional core research team, the IFF Institute will also develop extensive cooperation with international think-tanks, publish high-quality independent, pragmatic and constructive research reports on governmental and corporate strategic decision-making with a global vision and foresight, and will exert its influence globally through its close contact with international financial leaders.