Bennet Nicolaisen

Bennet Nicolaisen is a Berlin-based program assistant with GMF Risk and Strategy.

Before joining GMF, Nicolaisen worked at the European Parliament’s Directorate General for External Policies and its Transatlantic Relations and Global Governance Unit, and as a program assistant in Aspen Institute Germany’sTransatlantic Program. He also interned at the Bertelsmann Stiftung and its Sovereign Europe Program, the Hamburg offices of a member of the Bundestag, and the office of a member of the Hamburg state parliament.

Nicolaisen holds a master’s degree, with a focus on transatlantic relations, in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Fulbright scholar.