Jakob Hensing
Research Fellow
Jakob Hensing is a research fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, where he focuses on the intersection of economic and security policy.
His work looks at how power and security considerations are reshaping the global economy, especially in terms of competition and collaboration on critical and emerging technologies. He is also interested in the political economy of violent crises and stabilization efforts, and in the relationship between business and the state in different political settings.
Jakob’s experience comprises more than five years working as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and at Orphoz Public, McKinsey’s dedicated public sector branch in Germany. In this role, he supported corporate clients in sectors ranging from energy and basic materials to semiconductors and automotive with regard to transformations, mergers, and risk governance, while his work with government institutions focused on economic strategy and on the digitization of public services. In addition, Jakob contributed to two projects on the future of the European economy at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI). Previously, he interned with the German Federal Foreign Office’s unit for civilian crisis prevention and volunteered with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Damascus, Syria. He also worked with GPPi already in 2011 and was part of the founding team of d|part, a think tank on political participation.
Jakob earned his doctorate from the University of Oxford for a study of post-conflict economic reconstruction in Angola and Mozambique. He holds an MPhil in international relations, also from Oxford, as well as a bachelor’s degree in integrated social sciences from Jacobs University Bremen. Jakob’s studies were supported by a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation.
