Dr. Jan H. Wille

Jan H. Wille is a Partner in the Hamburg office of Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consulting business. He leads PwC’s aerospace and defense team in EMEA and is a leading member of the industrial products and public sector practices.

Jan advises private sector and public clients in the EMEA region on large-scale transformations, strategy formulation, operating model design and operational excellence.

His key areas of expertise include:

• Aerospace
• Defense and security
• Supply chain management, logistics, maintenance, procurement
• Digital transformations

Some of his recent client assignments include:

• Sustainable Industrial System design in A&D
• Business-driven S4/HANA transformation of an A&D company
• Digitalization strategy for an aircraft OEM
• Operational Excellence in helicopter MRO
• Military procurement redesign

Jan is a frequent speaker at aerospace, defense and security conferences and has published a number of articles including 'The real cost of green aviation’ and 'A Growth Plan for the European Defense Industry ’.

Prior to joining Strategy& in 2009, Jan was a business development manager at a public-private defense company, a research associate in the area of technical logistics, and a logistics officer at the German Armed Forces.

Jan earned his PhD in mechanical engineering and his diploma degree in industrial engineering, both from Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, and was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School in Philadelphia.