Board

Board members

Liam Benham (The Boeing Company)

Chair
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Liam Benham is the President of EU, NATO and Government Affairs Europe at Boeing International. In December 2023, he was elected as Chair of the Board of Directors, AmCham EU.
Liam Benham was appointed President of EU, NATO and Government Affairs Europe at Boeing International in December 2022.
Benham is responsible for expanding Boeing’s presence and pursuing new growth opportunities as the senior Boeing representative in France and Southern Europe. As head of the Boeing Brussels office, he also represents the company’s interests with key European Union institutions, European regulators and NATO. Working closely with Boeing teams across Europe, he leads the company’s advocacy for informed decision-making on key EU policies that strengthen transatlantic ties, advance Europe’s economy, promote sustainable growth, contribute to a safe, innovative and competitive aviation system and connect EU citizens and businesses.
Benham brings over 25 years of senior government relations experience stemming from his work for global enterprises with a US heritage.
Prior to Boeing he served as Vice-President Government and Regulatory Affairs at IBM Europe for over a decade, focusing on a broad spectrum of topics of interest – from AI, cybersecurity and privacy to trade, taxation and the EU Digital Single Market. Benham also held senior government relations positions for 15 years at the Ford Motor Company, where he focused on key regions of interest, including Europe, Asia Pacific and Africa.
Benham holds a Degree in Politics from the University of Bristol. He is the current Board Chair of the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union and has previously served as Board Member of American Chambers of Commerce to the EU and American Chambers of Commerce in Thailand.
Benham is a dedicated transatlanticist. Benham has also previously served as Vice-Chair of the BusinessEurope Digital Economy Taskforce and Board Member of DIGITALEUROPE.
Nikolaas Baeckelmans (ExxonMobil)

Vice-Chair (Corporate)
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Nikolaas Baeckelmans has been with ExxonMobil since 1991 in a variety of legal, business and public and government affairs assignments across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. In 2014, he was appointed to lead the Brussels EU Liaison office and to coordinate all public and government affairs activities for ExxonMobil in Europe.
He has engaged extensively in policy developments and advocacy campaigns across Europe in the fields of trade, competition law, environment, climate, energy, IP and data privacy.
Mr. Baeckelmans holds a Law Degree from Leuven University and a European History Masters from Strasbourg University.
He’s a Belgian national from Antwerp, now living in Brussels, with his wife and 3 daughters.
Hans Hack (FTI Consulting)

Vice-Chair (Lawyer/Consultant)
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Hans Hack is a Senior Managing Director in the Public Affairs practice within the Strategic Communications segment at FTI Consulting. He leads the Brussels office of FTI Consulting.
Hans' background is in policy making and strategic advocacy and he supports clients facing challenges with governments, regulators and the wider stakeholder environment. Understanding and influencing EU decision-making requires deep knowledge of all the processes, stakeholders and national sensitivities. Hans deploys his expertise and extensive network to expertly guide clients through these challenges and the ever-changing legislative environment.
Hans has a background in financial services regulation and policy and has more than 15 years experience covering all sub-sectors of financial services: banking, capital markets, asset management, retail financial services, financial infrastructure, insurance and audit.
Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Hans was the Dutch financial attaché to the EU. Previous to that role he was a coordinating policy officer at the Dutch Ministry of Finance.
Hans regularly speaks at events and panels, such as testifying to the House of Lords on EU matters.
Andrea Chiarello (Pfizer)

Chair of Policy Group
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Andrea joined Pfizer in 2015 and in December 2020 he became Director, Head of EU Government Affairs. In his current role, he coordinates Pfizer’s EU external engagement strategy and manages relationships with key trade associations such as EFPIA, AmCham EU and EuropaBio. His areas of focus include the Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe, intellectual property (IP) incentives, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and pandemic preparedness. In addition, Andrea is the founder and current manager of the @PfizerEUPolicy Twitter account and the pfizereupolicy.eu website. Andrea holds a M.A. in EU Diplomacy from the College of Europe (Bruges campus) and a M.A. in EU policies from Padua University (Italy) and the Institut D’Etudes Politiques (IEP) of Strasbourg. An Italian national, he speaks English, French, Spanish and basic Serbo-Croatian. He is married and proud father of Ines since February 2021.
Aylin Lusi (UPS)

Chair of Operations Group
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Victoria Main (SEC Newgate EU)

Chair of Communications Group
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Victoria Main is CEO at Brussels-based advocacy and communications consultancy SEC Newgate EU (formerly Cambre Associates). She is a policy communications expert with an international mindset and a far-reaching network in Brussels and beyond. She launched SEC Newgate EU’s thriving technology practice as well as the award-winning Brussels Calling debates with leading journalists covering the EU. She supports corporates, governments and trade associations across sectors.
She joined the AmCham EU board as Member-at-Large (Lawyer/Consultant) in June 2021. She is also a member of the Marketing and Communications Group.
Previously head of global media relations at Nokia, Victoria has extensive international experience both in communications and journalism. She had a prior role as head of media at FTI Consulting in Brussels.
Victoria began her career as a journalist, most recently with Reuters in London, but also in Brussels, Hong Kong, Milan, Paris and Wellington. She grew up on a back-country sheep station in New Zealand and also holds French nationality.
Andreas Reindl (Van Bael & Bellis)

Member-at-large (Lawyer/Consultant)
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Fiona Taylor (Verizon)

Member-at-Large (Corporate)
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Fiona Taylor leads Verizon’s International Public Policy function with a team located across three continents. She is in charge of defining the company’s public policy strategy across Verizon’s international footprint, advising cross functional teams on policy issues affecting the business and the company’s global strategy. She is also involved in internal mentoring programmes and Verizon’s Women of the World development programme.
Verizon and its subsidiaries are among the world’s leading providers of communications, entertainment, information technology and security solutions, with annual revenues in 2021 of $130 billion. Outside of the US Verizon also serves large business and government customers, including 99% of the Fortune 1000, covering over 150 countries worldwide.
Fiona has also headed Verizon’s EU representation in Brussels since October 2010. She is a Board Member of the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU) and represents the company before international policy-makers including EU institutions and in different organisations such as the European Internet Forum (EIF), ETNO, etc.. She has also served as Vice-chair of the Digital Economy Committee of AmCham EU.
Prior to joining Verizon, Fiona worked with the European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO), where she led the public policy function. Her responsibilities included the overall strategic positioning and advocacy of the association focusing on the impact of Internet-related policy and regulation on the member companies.
Malte Lohan

CEO, AmCham EU
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Malte Lohan is CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU (AmCham EU), which speaks for American companies committed to Europe on trade, investment and competitiveness issues. He holds strategic and operational responsibility for the association and leads its external representation.
Mr Lohan previously served as Director-General of Orgalim, representing Europe’s technology industries. Before that, he was Head of Corporate Affairs for AB InBev’s European region from 2014 to 2017 and Public Affairs Director at the World Federation of Advertisers from 2007 to 2014. He has also worked at a public affairs agency and in the European Parliament, and was President of the Society of European Affairs Professionals from 2015 to 2018.
Malte grew up in Brussels and Washington, DC. He holds a BA in philosophy and economics and an MSc in political science, both from the London School of Economics.