Heiko Borchert directs Borchert Consulting and Research AG, a consulting boutique focusing on strategic affairs. He is Associate Partner of Wise Pens International, a European consultancy specializing on maritime security policy and advice, and member of the board of the Journal for Foreign and Security Policy (Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, ZfAS). Heiko Borchert has worked with different public and private sector clients in Europe on issues like armaments policy, critical infrastructure protection, defense science and technology, energy security, energy infrastructure security, maritime security, scenario-based security policy planning, and organizational reform.
Publications:
- Beware the Hype: What Military Conflicts in Ukraine, Syria, Lybia, and Nagorno-Karabach (Don’t) Tell Us About The Future Of War, Defense AI Observatory, 2021
- Supply chain management and economic statecraft. A five-point agenda, East Asia Forum, 2020 (with Carsten Jäkel),
- The European way. How to advance Europe’s strategic autonomy by pairing liquidity with data to make supply chains more transparent, resilient and sustainable, Ernst & Young, 2020
- Looking beyond the abyss. Eight scenarios on the post-COVID-19 business landscape, 21strategies, 2020
- Jump-starting Europe’s work on military artificial intelligence, Defense News, 2019 (with Christian Brandlhuber)
- The Arab Gulf defense pivot. Defense industrial policy in a changing geostrategic context, Comparative Strategy, 2019
- Flow control rewrites globalization. Implications for business and investors, HEDGE21, 2019
- The Diversity Challenge: Five Perspectives on Eastern Mediterranean Geoeconomics, Kiel International Seapower Symposium | 2018
- Intellectual Capital Protection by Patents, The Ultimate but Hidden Base of Europe’s Defense Industrial Competitiveness, European Security & Defence | February 2018
- Sharpening the Falcon’s Claws. United Arab Emirate Strengthens Its Defense, European Security & Defence | February 2017
- Waiting for Disruption?! Undersea Autonomy and the Challenging Nature of Naval Innovation, Singapore S. Rajaratnam Schools of International Studies | 2017