Karin Riis-Jørgensen

Riis-Jørgensen is a senior advisor at Brussels-based public affairs company Kreab Gavin Anderson.¹ The company counts snus manufacturer Swedish Match as one of its clients.²
Riis-Jørgensen is also the founder of the European Privacy Association (EPA), a Brussels-based lobby group.

Lobbying on the Tobacco Products Directive

Riis-Jørgensen lobbied the European Commission on the EU Tobacco Products Directive Revision (TPD). On 16 March 2011 and 6 March 2012, Riis-Jørgensen and Swedish Match Public Affairs Director Cecilia Kindstrand-Isaksson met representatives of the European Commission’s Secretariat General to discuss the TPD review.³

Revolving Door

Prior to her career as a lobbyist, Riis-Jørgensen was a Danish politician who served as a Member of European Parliament from 1994 to 2009. She was twice re-elected in 1999 and in 2004.⁴ From 1987 to 1989 she worked for the European Commission’s task force for small and medium-sized enterprises. ⁵

TobaccoTactics Resources

• EU Tobacco Products Directive Revision
• TPD: Revolving Door Cases

TCRG Research

• The revision of the 2014 European tobacco products directive: an analysis of the tobacco industry’s attempts to ‘break the health silo’, S. Peeters, H. Costa, D. Stuckler, M. McKee, A.B. Gilmore, 2016, Tobacco Control; 25:108-117
• Quantifying the influence of tobacco industry on EU governance: automated content analysis of the EU Tobacco Products Directive, H. Costa, A.B. Gilmore, S. Peeters, M. McKee, D. Stuckler, 2014, Tobacco Control; 23:473-478