Dr. Benedikt Herles
Director, Co-Lead Geopolitics & Defence Competence Center, Head of Country Practice Africa
KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
Dr Benedikt Herles has over 15 years of experience in the fields of strategy consulting and investments. He advises companies on geostrategic issues at the interface of politics, technology and sustainability and is responsible for setting up a Geopolitics & Defence competence centre for KPMG Germany. He also heads the Africa country practice and supports clients with global diversification and resilience strategies. He is a regular representative at global conferences (including the UN Climate Change Conferences COP27-29).
Before joining KPMG, Dr Benedikt Herles was the founding Managing Director of the Viessmann Group's Corporate Venture Capital Fund. In this role, he was responsible for early-stage investments in industrial technologies and dual-use applications in Europe. He began his career in a leading strategy consultancy.
Dr Benedikt Herles is a regular interviewee on the news channel n-tv and an expert on current topics and developments in geopolitics, macroeconomics and climate. He has published numerous articles and is the author of two successful non-fiction books on global transformation and innovation. In 2020, he was voted one of Germany's "Top 40 under 40" (management category) by business magazine CAPITAL.
