Olivier Hoedeman (Dutch/Danish, MA Political Science at the University of Amsterdam) is coordinator at Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), which he co-founded almost 30 years ago. Corporate Europe Observatory is a Brussels-based research and campaign group working to expose and challenge the privileged access and influence enjoyed by corporations and their lobby groups in EU policy-making. He is also co-founder of the Alliance for Lobby Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) and several other EU level civil society coalitions. Olivier Hoedeman has co-authored books like 'Europe Inc.' (2000), 'Reclaiming Public Water' (2007), 'Bursting the Brussels Bubble' (2010) and 'Cities versus Multinationals' (2020). For more than a decade, he has monitored tobacco industry lobbying in Brussels and advocated for strict EU implementation of UN rules around such lobbying.