Ingo Baumann

Dr. Ingo Baumann is a founding partner of the law firm BHO Legal in Cologne, Germany. He specializes in national and international high technology projects, mostly in the space industry. His clients include leading stakeholders such as the European Commission, European Space Agency, German Space Agency, large operators, SME and start-ups. Dr. Baumann studied law in Münster and Cologne. He received his doctorate from the Cologne Institute for Aerospace Law under Prof. Dr. Hobe on the international law of satellite communications.

From 2001 to 2007, Dr. Baumann was in-house legal advisor at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). He was head of DLR´s Galileo Programme Office and administrative CEO of DLR Gesellschaft für Raumfahrtanwendungen mbH, a subsidiary of DLR for the establishment and operation of the German Galileo Control Center. Dr Baumann is member of the IISL and ECSL, and acts as mentor for space start-ups companies within the German/French SpaceFounders, the French Starburst BLAST and other accelerators and incubators. He chairs the legal/regulatory working group of the BDI NewSpace Initiative.