Heiko Kretschmer is co-founder and managing director of Johanssen + Kretschmer Strategische Kommunikation in Berlin. For 25 years he has advised clients at the intersection of politics, business and society, with a focus on political communication, campaigning and stakeholder management. He is spokesperson of the Managerkreis Berlin-Brandenburg, a member of the advisory board of de’ge’pol, the German association for political consulting, and a shareholder of the Deutsche Kinder- und Jugendstiftung (German Children and Youth Foundation). He studied physics.