Eivind Hoff

Biography

Eivind heads The Bellona Foundation’s EU advocacy office in Brussels, which is focussed on climate change, in particular the phasing out of unabated coal- and gas-fired power. He also led Bellona’s recommendations to the public consultation on guidelines for Norway’s sovereign wealth fund in 2008, which won recognition by the Government. He is specialised in trade and environment policies, having worked for the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry on bilateral free trade agreements and for WWF European Policy Office on trade and investment policy. At WWF, his work focussed on multilateral trade rules (e.g. the report “Correcting markets to tackle global challenges – what principles should guide multilateral subsidy rules?”), and he led a research project on CO2 embodied in international trade “EU consumption, global pollution”. International environmental and trade law were the focus of his LLM from the University of London.

Eivind grew up in Norway, where he was a member of the national board of the youth movement of Friends of the Earth Norway and also worked as a journalist inter alia for the NGO Future In Our Hands. He did his undergraduate degree at Sciences-Po Bordeaux and holds a master’s degree in European studies from the College of Europe. Eivind is the Norwegian board member of the European Environmental Bureau, and also a member of the advisory council of LibLab, a Norwegian social-liberal think-tank, but severe Europhilia has led him to live in Brussels. He led “EU in clear”, a project co-funded by the European Commission to discuss European integration in secondary schools across Europe.

Eivind wishes he had more time to play theatre and to paint.

This biography was last updated on August 18, 2009