Michael Kauch is our partner for Strategy and Public Affairs. As an economist by training, he has a 30 year experience in these fields. From 2003 to 2013, Michael Kauch was Member of the Bundestag, the German federal Parliament. In 2024, he was a Member of the European Parliament. He is still active in honorary political posts on national level.
Michael Kauch provides a relevant cross-party network of politicians and stakeholders in Germany and beyond. Michael Kauch has political experience both in the German political system and in the processes within the European Union. By several projects on reimbursement, HTA and governmental affairs , he is familiarized with the challenges of market access and reimbursement of medical devices as well as with payers and self-administration stakeholders.
In the European Parliament, Michael Kauch was a member of the industry and research committee. In the German Parliament, he specialized in environment and health. He was member of the Special Committee on “Ethics and law of modern medicine”, substitute member of the Health Committee and liberal spokesperson on bioethics, transplantation and palliative medicine. Besides his work in Parliament, he was consultant in the Innovation Council of a major German health insurance.
Before his time in Parliament, Michael Kauch worked as press spokesman, PR and policy expert and later as managing director of the German young entrepreneurs association BJU. He is an expert in political communication with press and TV. Additionally, he gained experience in organizing stakeholder dialogues, events and conferences.
Michael Kauch holds a degree as “Diplom-Volkswirt”, the German equivalent to a Master degree in economics with specialization in economic policy and marketing. He is a native speaker in German, fluent in English and has considerable knowledge of Italian and French.
