Dr. Nico Nolte

Dr. Nico Nolte studied law and, after postgraduate studies at the University of London and a traineeship in Osnabrück and Brussels, started his professional involvement in energy policy at an association of the regional energy industry in Hanover. At the end of 2000, he joined the Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration in Berlin and BSH in Hamburg in the summer of 2002. There he worked in the fields of offshore wind energy and maritime spatial planning and in summer 2013 he took over the corresponding division Management of the Sea. He headed the work on drawing up the first maritime spatial planning plans for the German EEZ in the North Sea and Baltic Sea (2009) and the INTERREG project "BaltSeaPlan" (2009 to 2012). There, 14 partners from seven countries worked together on maritime spatial planning in the Baltic Sea. Due to the increased importance of offshore energy, the BSH was given additional tasks. As a result, Dr. Nolte has been appointed head of the newly created Department for the Management of the Sea in 2017. For Dr. Nolte, the versatility in combination with planning tasks is an exciting field of activity; especially the approval of offshore structures, which he greatly appreciates and particularly the interdisciplinary work on legal, marine biological and technical issues. Dr. Nico Nolte is also a lecturer at the University of Hamburg for "National Public Law of the Sea".