Nickolas Reinhardt is Co-Founder and Director of Afore Consulting, a premier European public affairs consultancy in Brussels specialized in financial services.

Having worked in Brussels for more than 25 years, he has built up an extensive network in Brussels, key European member states and the UK. Through the EU-Asia Financial Services Roundtable he maintains good networks in Asia. Nickolas is a vastly experienced and a leading authority on financial services regulation.

His ability to be a strong advocate with commercially astute and user-friendly advice is based on his knowledge of the industry having trained and worked as a merchant banker and securities trader.
He has an MA in Political Science, Economics and History from the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany. He lectured on EU affairs at the University of Limerick and Queen’s University, Belfast. Nick grew up in a bilingual home in Kiel, Germany with a German father and British mother.