Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) is a research and campaign group working to expose and challenge the privileged access and influence enjoyed by corporations and their lobby groups in EU policy making. Vicky Cann is a researcher and campaigner and her work includes a specific focus on corporate capture and current lobby battles. In particular she has worked on revolving doors, lobby transparency, plastics, ‘better regulation’, captured states, and currently chemicals. She also manages the
LobbyFacts lobby data project. Previously she worked for the UK
Trades Union Congress as a project officer, working with trade union partners across Britain, Asia and the Middle East to improve workers' rights. She has also worked as a campaigns policy officer for the
World Development Movement (now
Global Justice Now) challenging water privatisation in the global south and unfair European trade deals. She has also worked in the transport and environmental fields.