Hans Hedin

Hans Hedin is an expert in the field of Market and Competitive Intelligence (MI/CI). He advices global companies about how they can understand their external business environment better.

Hans has conducted MI development and implementation projects for international organisations in Europe, the Middle East, USA, South America, and Asia. Examples include intelligence product development, organizing and optimizing the intelligence function, MI Benchmarking, Early Warning Systems, strategic workshops such as war/future games, and scenario analysis. Hedin is also a recognized speaker at international intelligence conferences such as SCIP and IIR, and he has chaired the most recent GIA Conferences in Europe and North America.

Hans Hedin has had a leading role in building up the Global Intelligence Alliance Network, which is one of the largest non-governmental intelligence networks worldwide. It consists of over 11 GIA Member offices, GIA Member annd GIA Research companies and freelance consultants around the world.

Between 1992-1997, Hans Hedin was teaching and conducting CI research at Lund University together with professor Stevan Dedijer, the "grandfather" of intelligence. Hedin's area of research focused on how international companies were organizing their intelligence activities. He is still a popular guest lecturer at academic institutions such as The Royal School of Engineers Executive School, Stockholm School of Economics, Lund University, as well as Stockholm University at undergraduate, MBA and executive education levels.

Early on in his career Hans Hedin worked for Nordea, one of the largest Scandinavian banks where he developed software for conducting industry and company analysis. He has also been a senior partner at Docere Intelligence, another intelligence consulting firm.

Hans Hedin was SCIP Sweden Chapter Coordinator between 1999-2003 and is now a Management Board Member of the newly started Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business. He has authored 'The Handbook of Market Intelligence' (2011), 'The Corporate Intelligence Radar' (in Swedish, 2006) and 'Intelligence in Sweden 1638-2006' (Journal of Competitive Intelligence, SCIP 2006), and co-authored the GIA White Paper Series (2003-2011).

Hans Hedin earned his Master's degree in International Business Administration & Languages from the University of Lund in 1993, having also studied Information Management at the University of St.Gall in Switzerland and at Cambridgeshire College of Arts & Technology. Hedin is married and has three children. During his leisure time he enjoys fencing and photography.