Yannik Bendel

Policy Officer – EU Integrity

Yannik works on projects around the integrity of the EU institutions. This includes issues around lobbying, conflicts of interest and legislative transparency. He is also in charge for the online platform EU Integrity Watch and its role out in Europe an beyond. Before joining Transparency International EU, Yannik has worked at the public sector teams of PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Ramboll Management Consulting, as research assistant for the Varieties of Democracy and Quality of Government projects at Gothenburg University. He also briefly worked for the European division of the German Foreign Ministry. Yannik holds undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Economics from the University of Bayreuth and a master’s degree in International Administration & Global Governance from Gothenburg University.

Yannik's Projects

Overfishing in the Darkness

Investigating EU Member States’ positions on transparency of the EU Council negotiations in the AGRIFISH Council

College of Europe Transparency Group

Partnering with Europe's young and bright to focus on the EU's democratic legitimacy

Recent News

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Spring cleaning? Time for transparent lobbying

Spring is around the corner, or so they keep saying in spite of the cold and the grey. It’s the time of year for a spring clean, when we do away with the cobwebs and dust in dark corners. Today the European Commission is looking into doing its own...