Dr. Hans Bellstedt is the founder and owner of Hans Bellstedt Public Affairs GmbH. He advises board members and managing directors on strategic and political issues, coordinates the hbpa competence partners and represents hbpa in the European United Government Affairs network.
 
Hans Bellstedt studied modern history, economics and political science in Göttingen, Bordeaux, Bonn and Paris. He was an employee of Karl Lamers, MdB (1990-1991), office manager of DIHT President Hans-Peter Stihl (1992-1995) and consultant for board publications at ABB Asea Brown Boveri AG. From 1999 to the end of 2007 he managed the communications agency Plato GmbH, which he founded together with Scholz & Friends.

Hans Bellstedt is a lecturer in public affairs at the Technical University of Berlin and has published the anthology "Public Affairs. Strategies and Instruments of Interest Representation" (2010). He likes to run, collects art and is a reading mentor at a primary school in Berlin-Wedding.

You can find his regular publications on questions of politics, communication and the future of liberal democracy at: hansbellstedt.de