Paul Verhagen
speaker
Paul Verhagen is a Dutch-American-Chinese researcher working at the intersection of technology, geopolitics and political economy. He is a Senior Fellow at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and an AI strategist at the University of Amsterdam. His work examines how emerging technologies are reshaping geopolitical competition and putting democratic institutions under pressure. He is the author of The Techtonic Shift: Power, Tech, and the End of Nations (2026), in which he explores the institutional and geopolitical consequences of technological acceleration.