Dr. Heiko Borchert is the owner and managing director of Borchert Consulting & Research AG, which specializes in security strategy issues. He is co-director of the Defense AI Observatory at Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute for Defense and Strategic Studies, and an expert at The Hague Center for Strategic Studies. Dr. Borchert is a member of the editorial board of the Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik and the Defence Horizon Journal. He studied international relations, business administration, economics and law at the University of St. Gallen, where he also earned his doctorate.

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• "New Geoeconomics: A Primer", in Johann Strobl und Heiko Borchert (Hrsg.), Storms Ahead. The Future Geoeconomic World Order (Wien: Raiffeisen Bank International, 2021), S. 16-35
• "War as a Service: Stop Overhyping Technology", (mit Torben Schütz und Joseph Verbovszky), Singapur: RSIS S. Rajaratnam Schoold of International Studies, Commentary 123, 2021. 
• "Beware the Hype. What Military Conflicts in Ukraine, Syria, Libya, and Nagorno-Karabakh (Don't) Tell Us About the Future of War", (mit Torben Schütz und Joseph Verbovszky),  Hamburg: Defense AI Observatory, 2021.
• "Supply Chain Management and Economic Statecraft: A Five-Point Agenda," East Asia Forum, 29. Juni 2020. 
• The European Way. How to advance Europe's strategic autonomy by pairing liquidity with data to make supply chains more transparent, resilient and sustainable, (mit Carsten Jäkel), Köln: Ernst & Young, 2020.
• "Covid-19: Strategische Krisenfestigkeit braucht ein neues Gleichgewicht von Staat und Wirtschaft", (mit Johann Frank), NZZ, 10. Mai 2020.
• “Jump-Starting Europe’s Work on Military Artificial Intelligence”, (mit Christian Brandlhuber),  Defense News, 9. September 2019.
• "Flow Control Rewrites Globalization. Implications for Business and Investors",  Dubai: HEDGE21/Alcazar Capital Ltd, 2019.
• “The Arab Gulf Defense Pivot: Defense Industrial Policy in a Changing Geostrategic Context”, Comparative Strategy, 37:4, February 2019, S. 299-315.