Michiel Reerink

Michiel Reerink is International Corporate Affairs Director for Alliance One International, based at the company’s Swiss office. Since 2020, he directs AOI’s international corporate affairs, represents AOI with governments, legislators, nongovernmental organizations, industry organizations and other trade associations and provides outreach to share the company’s views and positions with the wider public. From 1996 to 2001, he represented the association of Dutch fine-cut tobacco manufacturers (VNK) in The Hague, advancing its members’ interests with Dutch and European legislators and politicians. Between 2001 and 2010 he worked at Imperial Tobacco, across a range of Corporate Affairs and excise/anti-illicit trade roles nationally and regionally as well as at Imperial’s Bristol head office and its EU Affairs Office in Brussels. From 2010 until 2020, Reerink led JTI’s Global Regulatory Strategy department in Geneva where he established and executed comprehensive strategies to address emerging regulatory issues worldwide. Reerink has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics and a master’s degree in Dutch civil law.