Álvaro Oleart

Alvaro Oleart has an MA in communications from the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), an executive master in European political communication from IHECS (Institut des Hautes Études des Communications Sociales) and is currently undertaking a PhD in political communication at the Institute for European Studies of the ULB (IEE-ULB). His academic research is focused on the role of the media and civil society in the EU policy-making process and the legitimacy of the EU as a polity, an expertise that was nourished by his work experience at Finance Watch, a Brussels-based NGO. He is part of the ARC project ValEUR and his PhD deals with the way in which TTIP was framed by the media in France, Spain and the UK.