Nicola NOTARO
- Visiting professor, European Legal Studies Department
Dr Nicola Notaro is a qualified Italian lawyer and holds an LL.M in European law (Bruges) and a PhD in environmental law (London).
Since 2022, he is Head of the Compliance & Implementation Unit in DG Environment at the European Commission (EC). Before that, he has been Head of the Nature Protection Unit, Deputy Head of the Water Unit, Legal Adviser for multilateral environmental negotiations and then Team Leader for the international climate negotiations in DG Environment.
Before joining the EC, Dr Notaro worked as a university lecturer on European environmental law at the University of Groningen (NL).
During the last 25 years he has lectured and published extensively in the field of environmental law (Universities of Groningen, Maastricht, London, College of Europe Bruges, Montreal, Aarhus, Lille, Milano, VUB Brussels, etc.)