Matti Van Hecke

Matti is Managing Partner at PI Brussels, where he has been working since 2017. In that time he has successfully designed and implemented public affairs campaigns across multiple industries including energy, e-commerce, digital, food and health at both the Belgian and EU level. Matti also takes up important roles in the public affairs industry’s representative bodies such as EPACA, Bepact and PACE. Matti holds a PhD in political science and has published peer-reviewed articles on lobbying in multi-level political systems. Before joining PI, he was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Antwerp where he taught a MA courses on EU decision-making and advocacy. He holds Master’s degrees in Comparative & European Politics and in International Relations & Diplomacy and Bachelor degree in Social and Economic Sciences. As a Belgian national, he is fluent in Dutch and English with a good command of French.