Research Fellow, International Security and Defence
Markus Iven is a Research Fellow for International Security and Defence at HCSS. His work focusses on great power competition, coercive diplomacy, and transatlantic security.
He also serves as a Major (reserve) 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 a Master of Arts 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 by the Warsaw Security Forum.
