Professional background
Michel Rademaker is the Deputy Director of HCSS. He gained fifteen years of hands-on experience as an officer of The Netherlands Royal Army, where he held various military operational and staff posts and served a term in former Yugoslavia. After leaving the armed forces. He has written several book chapters, numerous research reports and articles. He served as secretary of the pilot joint venture TNO Clingendael Centre for Strategic Studies for three years and was one of the co-founders of its successor HCSS.