Major Jaap Verbruggen (Royal Netherlands Army) is an Operational Assessment staff officer at the NATO Command and Control Centre of Excellence in Utrecht. His work focuses on how NATO headquarters exercise command and control in practice, and what it takes to modernise C2 for multi-domain operations. He brings 25 years of experience across the Army, NATO and industry.

A former parachute infantry platoon commander and Joint Terminal Attack Controller, he deployed to Bosnia and Herzegovina with SFOR and to Afghanistan with ISAF, and led current operations for 11th Airmobile Brigade before joining the C2COE. Between military posts he spent three years as operations manager in the commercial safety training sector in Rotterdam.

Jaap graduated from the Royal Military Academy in Breda in 2009. He lives in Zevenhuizen with his partner and two children.