Christoph Gottschalk is a member of the Advisory Council of 365 Sherpas BPI – Corporate Affairs & Policy Advice, serving as an external Senior Advisor.

Christoph Gottschalk works as a strategy and policy consultant through his firm “The GO Network.” He has extensive experience advising global executives, corporations, and non-profit organizations at the intersection of politics, business, media, and culture. As a host and curator, he organizes a wide range of socio-political discussion formats.

From 2019 to 2022, he served as Managing Director of The New Institute Foundation gGmbH. From 2017 to 2019, Christoph Gottschalk led the Berlin office of Kekst CNC as a Partner. Prior to that, starting in 2007, he managed international mandates in the areas of non-profit, government affairs, and communications at Russell Reynolds Associates, and from 2012 onward, he headed the Hamburg office. From 2003 to 2005, he was the first German to serve as a member of the inner advisory staff (cabinet) of French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin.

Christoph Gottschalk is a certified systemic coach and organizational consultant. He serves on the advisory boards of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and Bucerius Law School, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Übersee-Club Hamburg. Since 2025, he has been Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD). In 2025, Christoph Gottschalk was also admitted to the “Académie de Berlin.”