Jakob Hensing

Jakob Hensing is a research fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. From September to December 2025, he is based in Washington, DC, as a DAAD/​AGI fellow at the American-German Institute (AGI).

Jakob’s work explores how power and security considerations are reshaping the global economy, especially in terms of competition and collaboration on emerging technologies. His research at AGI looks at the evolving interplay between the US administration and the tech sector in America’s techno-economic statecraft, and at implications and learnings for Germany and Europe. More generally, he is interested in the relationship between business and the state in different political settings, as well as in the political economy of crisis management. Jakob’s writing and commentary have featured in Foreign Policy, Wirtschaftswoche, and Newsweek, among others.

Jakob’s experience comprises more than five years working as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he supported clients in sectors ranging from energy and basic materials to semiconductors and automotive with transformations and risk governance, and at Orphoz Public, McKinsey’s dedicated public sector branch in Germany. He also contributed to two projects on the future of the European economy at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI). More recently, he has taught on economic statecraft and security at Freie Universität Berlin.

Jakob holds a DPhil in Politics and an MPhil in international relations from the University of Oxford, as well as a bachelor’s degree in integrated social sciences from Jacobs University Bremen. His studies were supported by a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation.