Ansgar Baums is a Senior Advisor at Sinolytics. Before that, Ansgar was a German Marshall Fund’s 2023 Helmut Schmidt Fellow and worked 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. 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.
He 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.


