Joris Teer

Joris Teer is a part-time PhD-candidate at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy, and Strategy (CSDS) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He is the Research Analyst leading the portfolio on Economic Security and Technology at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS). On behalf of EUISS, he is a Senior Advisor to the Chips Diplomacy Support Initiative (CHIPDIPLO), an 18-month project aiming to help structure Europe’s semiconductor foreign policy through research, think tank-industry dialogues, and other activities. CHIPDIPLO is executed by four European thinktanks and co-funded by the European Union.

Teer has published on the Europe’s place in China-US competition, peace and security in East Asia (in particular the risk and costs of a Taiwan-conflict), and the geopolitics of critical raw materials, semiconductors and other critical industries in international publications (e.g. Politico Europe and the Diplomat).

Teer was a strategic foresight and China analyst at the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS), focusing on the dilemmas of deep economic interdependence at a time of great power rivalry. Joris co-initiated HCSS Boardroom, an initiative to make the strategies of industry and investors more geopolitically shock resistant. Teer has published on the Europe’s place in China-US competition, peace and security in East Asia (in particular the risk and costs of a Taiwan-conflict), and the geopolitics of critical raw materials, semiconductors and other critical industries in international publications (e.g. Politico Europe, and the Diplomat). He has lead-authored research reports on these topics for the Dutch Ministries of Defence, Foreign Affairs, and Economic Affairs, the House of Representatives of the Netherlands and the European Union.

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