The Quantum Policy Forum exists to ensure that quantum technology policy is shaped by evidence, informed by global context, and accessible to the people responsible for acting on it.
The gap we address
Quantum technology policy is being made at extraordinary speed. Since 2018, more than 30 nations have launched quantum strategies, committing over $55 billion in public funding. Export controls have expanded from individual entity listings to coordinated plurilateral frameworks. Post-quantum cryptography migration deadlines have moved from theoretical discussion to enforceable mandates, with Australia requiring action by 2030 and the US, EU, and UK targeting 2035.
These decisions carry consequences across national security, economic competitiveness, scientific collaboration, trade, and individual privacy. Yet the policy environment is fragmented. Developments in one jurisdiction often proceed without reference to what allied or competing nations have done. Regulators set requirements without full visibility into how their counterparts elsewhere are approaching the same problem. Companies operating across borders encounter contradictory timelines, incompatible standards, and opaque enforcement regimes.
The information exists, scattered across government gazettes, standards body publications, legislative trackers, and specialist media in dozens of languages. What does not exist is a single institution dedicated to assembling, interpreting, and delivering that information in a form that decision-makers can act on. The Forum was created to fill that gap — starting with a continuous public record of every significant quantum policy action worldwide, and building the analytical layers that give those developments meaning.
What We Believe
Three convictions behind our work
Policy should be grounded in evidence
Quantum technology attracts hype and alarm in roughly equal measure. Both distort the policy response. Effective governance requires analysis that is specific about capabilities, honest about timelines, and precise about what is known versus what is projected.
Cross-border context changes everything
A PQC migration deadline in one jurisdiction means something different when five allied nations have set a different date. An export control is only as effective as its multilateral coordination. Quantum policy cannot be understood one country at a time.
Intelligence must reach the people who decide
The best analysis is useless if it arrives too late, buries findings in noise, or reaches only the research community. Decision-makers in government, industry, and defense need structured, interpreted intelligence calibrated to their time and their responsibilities.
Hype and alarm both distort the policy response. We provide the evidence base for decisions that will hold up under scrutiny.
Independent · Non-profit · Analytically impartial
Mission in Practice
How we act on these convictions
The Forum’s mission expresses itself through four activities, each designed to close a specific gap between quantum technology capabilities and the policy frameworks meant to govern them.
A structured, continuously updated record of every significant quantum policy action across 100+ countries and multilateral organizations. The factual foundation that everything else builds on.
Policy briefs, cross-jurisdictional comparisons, and commentary published freely on qpf.org. Designed to raise the quality of public discourse on quantum governance.
Targeted gatherings that put policymakers, industry leaders, and researchers in the same room. Closed-door where candor requires it, open where reach matters.
From PQC migration to workforce capacity, our work is organized around nine areas where quantum technology creates the most consequential governance challenges.
The Forum’s subscription intelligence service delivers weekly briefings, breaking alerts, and quarterly deep-dives with the full cross-jurisdictional analysis that decision-makers pay for. The subscription revenue sustains the Forum’s non-profit mission and editorial independence.
Independence
Funded by the work, not by the subjects of it
The Forum is sustained by subscription revenue from Quantum Policy Radar and by event income. We do not accept corporate membership dues, government grants tied to editorial outcomes, or sponsorship arrangements that would compromise analytical independence.
This structure is deliberate. When we assess a national quantum strategy as underfunded, an export control as poorly coordinated, or a PQC migration timeline as unrealistic, subscribers need to know that assessment reflects our honest judgment rather than the preferences of a funder or member.
The Forum may take positions on policy questions where our research supports a clear conclusion. Our intelligence products, however, maintain strict analytical impartiality. Quantum Policy Radar reports and interprets; it does not advocate. Our full commitments are published on the governance and policies page.
See how the mission translates to practice
Our methodology, editorial principles, and coverage model are designed to deliver on these commitments every week.