Richard Nohe

Richard Nohe serves as General Counsel for BT in the Americas, responsible for legal, governance, compliance, and regulatory issues.

Over the past three decades, Mr Nohe has built comprehensive experience in corporate legal affairs, complex multi-jurisdictional contract negotiation, government relations and regulatory-economic analysis across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pac. Before joining BT, Mr Nohe had been with MFN/Abovenet, then a NASDAQ-100 company, most recently serving as VP Global Real Estate responsible for more than a billion dollars in asset value. Prior to that, he served as VP International & Managing Director Europe, leading expansion into 16 European cities in 8 countries.

During the 1990s, Mr Nohe was with NTT and served as VP Law & Strategy, as well as General Manager Washington, DC office. The Brookings Institution granted Mr Nohe a Congressional Fellowship through which he worked as a professional staff member on the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee.

During the late 1980s he worked at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business where he participated in research on the economic and regulatory issues surrounding the deployment of broadband networks.

He currently sits on the Advisory Board of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of BT Federal, Inc. A recognised leader in his field, The Legal 500 named him US In-House Individual of the Year: Telecoms, and to its GC Powerlist. He has also received commendations from the Financial Times Innovation Awards, and the Ernst Stiefel Award for Excellence in Comparative, Common, and Civil Law.