Jakob Hensing

Head of Political Economy @ GPPi

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

About

My work explores how technology, power politics and security concerns are reshaping the global economy and how Europe can navigate these developments. I am also more broadly interested in state-business relations in different political settings, as well as in the interplay of economic and political processes in preventing and managing violent conflict. Before I (re-)joined GPPi in 2022, I worked for more than 5 years as a consultant with McKinsey & Company and Orphoz Public, and completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford.

Experience

  • Head of Political Economy at Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi)
    May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

    Previously Research Fellow

  • DAAD/AGI Research Fellow at American-German Institute
    Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 · 4 mos

  • Project Manager, Public at ORPHOZ, a McKinsey Company
    Sep 2020 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

    Previously Senior Consultant, Public

  • Senior Associate at McKinsey & Company
    Oct 2013 - Aug 2020 · 6 yrs 11 mos

    Previously Fellow, Fellow Associate, Education Leave, Fellow Senior Associate

  • Research Associate at Global Public Policy Institute
    May 2011 - Sep 2011 · 5 mos