Sebastian Reyn | ASMLHead of Geopolitics and Global Advocacy

ASML Head Geopolitics & Global Advocacy, September 2024 - present

✓ Responsible for ASML’s global government relations and team, with a footprint in the Netherlands, the 
EU, the United States, China, Korea, and Japan.
✓ Responsible for supporting ASML’s Board of Management with geopolitical advice.

Previous positions
• Deputy Director Defense Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD), 2019–2024
• Director-General of Policy (a.i.) at Ministry of Defence, 2018–2019
• Director of Strategy, Knowledge and Innovation at Ministry of Defence, 2014–2019
• Director of Joint Sigint Cyber Unit (AIVD/MIVD), 2012–2014
• Deputy Director of General Policy Affairs at Ministry of Defence, 2010–2012
• Project Director Future Policy Survey, 2008–2010
• Various positions at Directorate of General Policy Affairs at Ministry of Defence, 1995–2008

EDUCATION
2022 Comenius Course ‘Leadership in Complexity’ (University of Groningen)
2007–2011 National Leadership Development Program (ABD)
2007 PhD (cum laude) from Leiden University for Atlantis Lost: The American Experience with 
De Gaulle, 1958–1969.
1993–1994 Graduate Diploma in International Studies from The Johns Hopkins University School 
of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Bologna Center, GPA 4.0.
1985–1991 Leiden University, Master of Arts in History and American Studies. 
1989–1990 University of Texas at Austin, Texas. Recipient of Fulbright Grant.

BOOK PUBLICATIONS
✓ American Power and the Cloak of Idealism: The ‘Great Quarrel’ between Charles de Gaulle and Uncle 
Sam (Atlantic Commission, 2020)
✓ Atlantis Lost: The American Experience with De Gaulle, 1958–1969 (Amsterdam University 
Press/Chicago University Press/Manchester University Press, 2010)
✓ Allies or Aliens? George W. Bush and the Transatlantic Crisis in Historical Perspective (Atlantic 
Commission, 2004