Ansgar Baums is Senior Advisor to Sinolytics and consults corporations on geopolitical risk management. He is also a non-residential senior fellow at the Stimson Center. In 2023, Ansgar was German Marshall Fund’s Helmut Schmidt Fellow 2023. He is co-author of the books „Tech Cold War. The Geopolitics of Technology“ (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2025), as well as „Die Stunde der Nashörner. Wie Unternehmen die neuen geopolitischen Risiken managen“ (Murmann Publishers, 2025).
He was formerly in government relations at Zoom Video Communications. Prior to that, Baums held other positions within the corporate world, most recently as Head of the Global Strategy Program at HP and as Head of Government Relations Europe/Middle East/Africa at HP. Ansgar also worked for SAP AG, the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications, and New Media – Bitkom, and Germany’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
Ansgar holds a master’s degree with distinction in international strategy and economics from the University of St. Andrews and a postgraduate diploma in political science from the Free University Berlin.