Professor Henk Overbeek will speak about the current geopolitical landscape, unpacking the fault lines reshaping today’s world order.

Henk is an Emeritus Professor of International Relations (affiliated with the Department of Political Science & Public Administration) at the Vrije University of Amsterdam and a widely published scholar of global political economy and geopolitics, bringing both academic depth and real-world policy experience from the Dutch Senate. His work sits at the intersection of international political economy and geopolitics, with recent focus on themes like the rise of China and the war in Ukraine.