Former Strategic Analyst, no longer working at HCSS
Joris Teer worked as a strategic foresight and China analyst at HCSS until April of 2024, where he focussed on the dilemmas of deep economic interdependence at a time of great power rivalry.
Together with Director of Political Affairs Han ten Broeke, Joris initiated HCSS Boardroom, an initiative to make the strategies of Dutch and European industry and investors more geopolitically shock-resistant. His contributions to the Strategic Monitor, a multi-annual strategic foresight project that HCSS together with the Clingendael Institute executes for the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defence, focussed on trends in geoeconomics and strategic technologies. He was also the Project Coordinator of the Europe in the Indo-Pacific Hub (EIPH).
Teer is also a member of the Peace and Security Committee (CVV) of the Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV). The AIV is an independent body which advises the Dutch government and parliament on foreign policy.
He has conducted research on the effects of great power competition on prosperity in the Netherlands and the EU, Netherlands relations with China, strategic technologies, the geopolitics of semiconductors, critical raw materials and the energy transition, resilient value chains for critical economic inputs, China’s military rise and (maritime) defence issues in the Indo-Pacific, the protection of 21st century NL and EU (offshore) critical infrastructure and strategic foresight methods. For a project commissioned by the Netherlands House of Representatives’ Committee on Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Teer led a research team that developed Taiwan crisis scenarios, outlining the impact on Dutch and European vital sectors of a military conflict in or around Taiwan.
He writes and speaks regularly on these issues in Dutch (e.g., NRC and Nieuwsuur) and international (e.g., BBC and Politico Europe) media.
As of April 15, 2024, Teer started work as an Associate Analyst in Economic Security and Technology at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Brussels, and is no longer working for HCSS.
