Rem Korteweg leads the Geopolitics of Trade Programme and Clingendael United States Programme within the EU & Global Affairs Unit at the Clingendael Institute. His research focuses on Europe’s strategic role in the world, with a specific focus on the intersection between foreign policy, trade and security issues. Among his current research interests are European trade & industrial policy, US-EU ties, UK-EU ties, and Europe’s changing relations with global powers.
Until April 2017 Rem Korteweg was a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform (CER) in London. In 2012, he had a posting at the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs as strategic policy advisor. In 2006-2007, he was a Fulbright scholar at the Johns Hopkins-SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations in Washington DC. Rem holds a PhD in International Relations from Leiden University, a masters in the History of International Relations from Utrecht University and a bachelors in Social Sciences from University College Utrecht. From 2011 to 2019 he was a committee-member of the Netherlands' Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV).
He is a regular contributor to various international and national media and has published in a variety of newspapers and journals. He is co-author of "Impact van Geopolitiek: Hoe bedrijven hun strategie bepalen" (2025). He is the author of “The superpower, the bridge-builder and the hesitant ally: How defence transformation divided NATO 1991-2008” (2011).
