Dr. Ingo Baumann is a founding partner of BHO Legal. a boutique technology law firm based in Cologne, Germany. He specializes in national, European 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 satellite operators, SME and NewSpace start-ups. Dr. Baumann studied law in Münster and Cologne. He received his PhD from the famous Cologne Institute for Air and Space Law under Prof. Dr. Hobe on the international law of satellite communications.
From 2001 to 2007, Dr. Baumann was in-house lawyer at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). He was then head of DLR´s Galileo Programme Office and administrative CEO of the DLR Gesellschaft für Raumfahrtanwendungen mbH, an affiliate of DLR for the establishment and operations of the German Galileo Control Center.

Dr Baumann is member of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) and the European Centre for Space Law (ECSL). He acts as mentor for space start-ups within SpaceFounders, the French Starburst BLAST and other accelerators and incubators. He chairs the legal/regulatory working group of the BDI NewSpace Initiative, and organizes yearly legal sessions or workshops at the Munich NewSpace Summit, the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit or Space Tech Expo Bremen.