Geopolitics disrupts business.
HCSS Boardroom brings clarity, strategy, and practical solutions.
In an era of global volatility, geopolitics is no longer a peripheral concern – it is a boardroom priority. HCSS Boardroom provides the strategic foresight and reality checks that leaders need to anticipate disruption, mitigate risk, and turn global complexity into competitive advantage. We empower organizations and investors to move beyond reactive measures, building the systemic resilience required to thrive amidst international confrontation and change.
Why geopolitics can no longer be ignored
The closure of the Gulf caused an economic shockwave impacting businesses worldwide. Putin’s war in Ukraine raised industrial production costs and turbocharged the defence sector. China’s export controls of critical raw materials deeply affect supply chains. US policies from changing tariffs to military operations in the Middle East and the Caribbean have serious consequences for Dutch exports, imports and economic outlook. Rivalry between the Emirates and Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Ethiopia, or Brazil and Argentina can influence your bottom line. Changing EU sanctions policies and trade relations further complicate decision making for Dutch boardrooms.
Who Should Attend
As foreign policy decisions around the world deeply affect business operations in the Netherlands, executives need to consider:
- Are our employees and investments safe abroad?
- How secure are our supply chains and markets?
- What likely new sanctions regime may affect our customers?
- How exposed are we to foreign policy developments?
- Is our business resilient in dealing with major interruptions and calamities?
- What conflict may erupt next, and how would that affect our company?
How HCSS Boardroom helps
HCSS Boardroom helps companies and investors seize opportunities and avoid risks in an increasingly complicated world. With our dedicated HCSS Boardroom services we enable companies to blossom in times of geopolitical and geo-economic upheaval.
HCSS is a leading strategic and security-focused organization with deep roots in foreign policy and defence issues, a wealth of data on political, economic and security risks, powerful digital analytical tools, and an extensive network of seasoned experts.
HCSS offers a range of services to companies and entities in the Netherlands and beyond.
This includes:
Geopolitical Due Diligence
- We provide quick scans of key business vulnerabilities in your national and international operations, focusing on exposure to political and security risks, geo-economic shocks and potential local calamities.
- We provide a larger, dedicated geopolitical due diligence By tailoring our due diligence framework to your operations and needs, we help you identify geopolitical and geo-economic risks and opportunities for your business.
Boardroom Masterclasses
- We offer masterclasses during which in a morning, afternoon or evening session, senior experts present and discuss key geopolitical and geo-economic challenges relevant to your business. Topics include, for instance, the impact of great power politics, critical raw materials, the future of energy and water, and the development of China or Gulf relations.
Strategic Negotiations
- We offer a strategic negotiations course. Over five afternoons or evenings our negotiation and conflict resolution experts from diplomacy, business and politics discuss and exercise core and advanced negotiation strategy and tactics. The course offers dedicated training on negotiating with international businesses and foreign governments.
- We offer tailor made negotiation advice. Our strategic negotiations experts can help your organization analyse any particular or expected international situation and work with you advance and implement your negotiation strategy.
About HCSS Boardroom:
Organising a geopolitical due diligence session or Masterclass with a group consisting of members of your Management Board, Board of Directors or Supervisory Board or a select group of decision-makers from your own company, can be provided at various locations. This is followed (if desired) by a dinner where board members and peers operationalise the geopolitical knowledge gained for their organisation.
If you are interested in discussing these or other possibilities, please contact Sven Koopmans via svenkoopmans@hcss.nl or call 070-3184840.
For the Grand Opening of HCSS Boardroom on April 6 2023, the Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Liesje Schreinemacher, provided a Q&A.
Who we are:
HCSS Boardroom draws on the skills and experience of senior HCSS analysts and subject matter experts, including:
Link to: Sven Koopmans
Sven Koopmans
Chair Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
HCSSLink to: Michel Rademaker
Michel Rademaker
HCSS Deputy Director
HCSSLink to: Tim Sweijs
Tim Sweijs
Director of Research
HCSSLink to: Laura Birkman
Laura Birkman
Director of the Climate, Water, and Food Security Programme
HCSSLink to: Kees van Rij
Kees van Rij
Strategic Advisor, International Affairs
HCSSLink to: Lucia van Geuns
Lucia van Geuns
Strategic Advisor, Energy
HCSSLink to: Hans Horan
Hans Horan
Strategic Analyst
HCSSLink to: Ron Stoop
Ron Stoop
Strategic Analyst
HCSSLink to: Berend Kwak
Berend Kwak
Fellow, Geopolitical Risk and Strategy
HCSS