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hbpa – a competent and highly motivated team, that is as familiar with the current legislation as it is with its customers’ topics and markets. The hbpa policy experts consider difficult tasks as challenges to be tackled and enjoy developing and implementing individual, goal-oriented solutions.
Find more information on individual hbpa team members here:
Founder and Managing Partner
Founder and Managing Partner
Hans Bellstedt (Dr. phil.) is the founder and managing partner of Hans Bellstedt Public Affairs GmbH. Prior to starting hbpa in 2008, he had founded the communications agency Plato GmbH together with Scholz & Friends in 1999 and managed it until the end of 2007. Hans was a staff member of Christian Democratic Foreign Affairs spokesman Karl Lamers MP from 1990 to 1991, personal assistant to Chambers of Industry and Commerce-president Hans-Peter Stihl (1992-1995) as well as an editor of executive publications at ABB Asea Brown Boveri AG.
The 53-year-old is lecturer for Public Affairs at the TU Berlin and publisher of the 2010 anthology “Public Affairs. Strategies and instruments of interest representation for science, economy and institutions”. His assessments of current political developments are published on
Director and Account Manager
Director and Account Manager
Patrick Alfers (M.A.) works for hbpa as Director and Account Manager. He advises clients in regards to their political communication. In this context, Patrick is responsible for political monitoring, contact management with political stakeholders, position papers as well as organizing political events.
Prior to joining hbpa in the summer of 2008, Patrick had worked for the InWEnt gGmbH, an affiliate of the Federal Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development. He was born in 1976, studied North American Studies, Political Science and Modern History in Germany and England and received his M.A. from the Free University Berlin. During his studies, he completed internships with the German Bundestag and a foreign-policy institute in Australia.
Patrick is a member of the board of the MUN-chapter at the Ernst Reuter association.
Executive Partner
Executive Partner
Sebastian Fischer-Jung (Ass. iur.) is a lawyer, freelance policy advisor and executive partner at hbpa.
He advises customers in strategic communication, regulation and political publications, with his key sectors being media, consumer goods, chemical industry and IT.
Furthermore, as managing partner of Digital Public Affairs GmbH, Sebastian specializes in social-medial political communication.
Prior to his current assignments, Sebastian has led the public affairs units of international network agencies, such as Plato/Scholz & Friends and Burson-Marsteller.
He started his professional career in 1995 as legal counsel at the Berliner Zeitung (part of Gruner+Jahr at that time) before he became publishing and managing director at media companies (inter alia Hearst-Marquard, Siedler, buecher.de).
During his law and history studies, Sebastian worked as staff member of an MoP.
Sebastian is also honorary board member of the German-Turkish Society (www.deutsch-türkische-gesellschaft.de).
Strategic Partner
Strategic Partner
As founder and Managing Partner of his own company, Political Solutions, Peter Husen is a strategic partner of hbpa. Core areas of expertise are digitization, energy, environment/climate and mobility. In joint projects with hbpa Peter Husen combines this expertise with his long-term experience in European Affairs.
Peter Husen has worked for 15 years as advisor for companies and associations at the interface of politics and business. During five years Peter worked in Brussels coordinating the advocacy work of clients towards the European institutions. EU legislation has been a dominant aspect of his work ever since.
Peter Husen is a trained political scientist. In the early 2000s he was first to come out with a scientific comparison between the public affairs industries in Germany and Brussels. A former lecturer for "International Public Affairs" at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Peter additionally organizes workshops and gives lectures on future topics such as digitization and internet of things.
Account Manager
Account Manager
Christopher-Paul Radtke works as an account manager at hbpa. His core policy fields are energy, environmental and general economic policies.
Christopher-Paul observes and analyses political and legislative developments about which he regularly edits policy reports for his customers. He drafts background papers on specific topics and designs panels and event formats bringing together business representatives with political stakeholders.
After successfully completing his commercial apprenticeship, Christopher-Paul acquired a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Politics from the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft in Berlin. He gained first experiences in PA and PR at Weber Shandwick before starting at hbpa.
Account Manager
Account Manager
Sascha Novoselic (M.A.) is an account manager at hbpa responsible for internet policy and digitalization. He analyses political processes in these fields, drafts reports and background papers and organizes innovative event formats between business and politics.
Sascha studied Political Science and Public Law in Erlangen as well as Politics and Public Management in Friedrichshafen. He gained practical experience in the field of public affairs by working at the Berlin office of MSL Germany and in the representative office of the 1&1 Internet AG. He was also an intern at the IT-department of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI).
Account Manager
Account Manager
Alina Klein (M.P.P.) works at hbpa as a Account Manager and supports customers with stakeholder mapping, profiling, policy analysis and project coordination.
She studied European Studies at Maastricht University in the Netherlands and holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. Alina spent two semesters in Spain during her studies.
Before joining hbpa, she gained professional experience in the political representation of the Allianz Deutschland AG in Berlin, the Volkswagen Group EU affairs office in Brussels and the German Bundestag.
Post-Master Intern
Post-Master Intern
Saskia Stedtfeld (M.A.) is a post-Master intern at hbpa. She studied at Maastricht University in the Netherlands and holds a Bachelors’ and Masters’ degree in European Studies with a specialization in Public Policy and Administration. She spent her ERASMUS-Semester at Aix-Marseille University in France.
Prior to joining hbpa, she completed an internship at the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ), where she worked on business development with companies and foundations.
At hbpa, Saskia Stedtfeld supports activities such as stakeholder mapping, profiling and project coordination. She alsotakes care of the social media channels.
Post-Master Intern
Post-Master Intern
Manuel Patane (M.A.) is a post-Master intern at hbpa. He studied political science and Sociology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.
Mr. Patane has gained practical experience in the fields of public relations and marketing and most recently worked in corporate communications at Thüga AG. At hbpa, he supports the team particularly in the area of IT and digitalization.
Managing Partner:
Dr. Hans Bellstedt
Französische Straße 14 · D-10117 Berlin
tel +49 30 83 21 680 - 50
fax +49 30 83 21 680 - 88
mail@hbpa.eu
