Strategic Analyst
Markus Iven is a Strategic Analyst at HCSS, working on grand strategy, transatlantic security and defence.
He also serves as a reserve officer at the German Military Delegation to NATO in the Strategy, Plans and Policy Branch. He spent 14 years in the German Armed Forces, most recently as an exchange officer with the Royal Netherlands Army, for which he received the Bundeswehr Silver Cross of Honour. Earlier, he deployed to Mali and Niger as an embedded war correspondent.
Markus holds an MA in Military Strategic Studies from the Netherlands Defence Academy. His thesis on US and Russian grand strategy received the Dwight D. Eisenhower Prize from the Netherlands Atlantic Association. He is an alumnus of the Clingendael Institute and Atlantik-Brücke. In 2025 he was selected as a Young Leader by the American Council on Germany and as a New Security Leader of the Warsaw Security Forum.
