Aviation and Space Symposium St. Gallen 2024

11 Sept 2024 | St. Gallen, Switzerland

Ingo Baumann

Partner

BHO Legal

Cologne, Germany

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Dr. Ingo Baumann is a founding partner of the law firm BHO Legal in Cologne, Germany. He specializes in high technology projects, mostly in the space industry.

About me

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.

My organisation

BHO Legal is a highly specialized technology law firm based in Cologne, Germany, providing legal advice in international, European, and national technology programmes in Space, Defence, R&D, Drones, Geospatial and ICT sectors. We support public and commercial clients on national, European and international law, public procurement law, air and space law, contract law, IT and data laws as well as intellectual property. We are among the top space law firms in continental Europe and recognized as a leading space law firm globally. Our Space & Satellite team has outstanding experience in all types of space projects (including earth observation, satellite communications, satellite navigation, meteorology, human spaceflight, space science and space R&D). Most of us have their academic backgrounds from the renowned Institute of Air and Space Law in Cologne, providing us with both the full academic legal context of space law and policy. We are members of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL), the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC), the BDI NewSpace Initiative and numerous other associations and institutions. We are mentoring in several European space industry accelerator/mentoring programs, including SpaceFounders, Starburst and the Founders Institute.

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Wednesday, 11 September 2024

11:00 - 12:15

Space Law Forum I: The Regulatory Framework in Space

Format:In-personLocation:ForumTrack:Space Law Forum