The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, will address a high-level audience at Chatham House in the United Kingdom on the escalating threats to global peace and security on October 30, 2015.

For over 80 years, the Chatham House has provided a unique platform for statesmen and great thinkers across the world to articulate ideas that contribute to peace and the building of a better world.

Among the icons of history who have been heard from Chatham House are Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and the recent Muamar opposition leader, Ansa Suu Kyi.

“The engagement with Otumfuo signifies the recognition of the role he can play as a global peace maker in a troubled world,” said the statement from the Manhyia Palace, signed by Chief of Staff, Kofi Badu.

As guest of the Cambridge University and the Royal Institute of International Relations, the King will also undertake a number of functions in the UK.

The Asantehene will be the Guest of Honour at this year’s Cambridge-Africa Day, which is celebrated at Cambridge University on October 23, 2015.

 “At the invitation of Lord Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury and now Master of Magdalene, Otumfuo will deliver the keynote address at a function to mark the re-launch of an endowment for a full time Nelson Mandela Professor of African Archeology at the University on October 24,” said the statement.