Michel Rademaker is the deputy Director and co-founder of HCSS. He is particularly interested in setting up multi-stakeholder projects, both with a combined qualitative as well as quantitative focus, on new and upcoming strategic security and geo-economic themes like resources, energy, and climate security and agri-food etc. But also strategic autonomy en national security.

Michel Rademaker was also an initiator of Security Delta, the biggest security cluster in Europe. He supported the establishment of the Hyderabad Security Cluster in India as well as Legal Tech developments. His fields of expertise include security strategy, policy, concepts and doctrines, technology assessments, geopolitical and economic security and serious gaming techniques for capability assessments, concept development, awareness and training. Michel has written several book chapters, and numerous research reports and articles. He frequently acts as moderator in seminars & workshops, as a trainer, as guest lecturer at various universities and speaker at conferences, and as a commentator in news media.