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John VerWey is an advisor in the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s (PNNL) Global Security, Technology and Policy group. In this role he supports U.S. government sponsor efforts to protect and promote critical technologies for economic and national security. His work at PNNL focuses on supply chain security, investment screening, export controls, and defense industrial base integrity. He is also a non-resident fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) and The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). 

Before joining PNNL, VerWey worked as a civil servant at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) and the U.S. Department of Commerce. In these positions he analyzed the effects of international trade, supply chains, Chinese industrial policies, export controls, and foreign direct investment on U.S. advanced technology industries, with a focus on microelectronics. He also served as a staff liaison to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States at USTR and supported investigations for the executive branch and congressional committees on economic competitiveness issues at the USITC and Commerce. Prior to federal government service, he consulted for The European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee and worked as a program manager at the American Enterprise Institute.

VerWey’s research on the semiconductor industry has been published by the United States International Trade Commission, the Journal of International Commerce and Economics, IEEE-Computer, and CSET, among others, and he has testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

• Asian studies
• Semiconductors
• Supply chain security
• Export controls
• Data analytics
• Economics
• Technology policy
• Microelectronics

• MS in international political economy, The London School of Economics and Political Science
• BA in history, Gonzaga University
• BA in Asian studies, Gonzaga University

• Member, National Academies Study
• Non-Resident Fellow, CSET
• Non-Resident Fellow, NBR
• Fellow, World Affairs Council (2021 – 2022)

2022

• VerWey J.P. 2022. "The Other Artificial Intelligence Hardware Problem." Computer 55, no. 1:34 - 42. PNNL-SA-166996. doi:10.1109/MC.2021.3113271
• VerWey J.P., A.R. Melville, and N. Farouq. 2022. Open Source Intelligence for Emerging Technology Analysis. PNNL-32750. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
• VerWey J.P., N.M. Lopez, K.M. Arthur-Durett, and J.L. Smith. 2022. Supply Chain Risk Management: Risk Evaluation. PNNL-33722. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
• VerWey J.P. 2022. Betting the House: Leveraging the CHIPS Act to Increase U.S. Microelectronics Supply Chain Resilience. PNNL-33783. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.