Lorelien Hoet is Director of EU Government Affairs at Microsoft. In this role, she works on EU policy files notably the area of data protection, law enforcement and standardization. Before joining Microsoft in 2018, she worked as a legal executive at Proximus (where she held different positions including Head of Legal Consumer business) and as Director of Regulatory Affairs at Orange in charge of the follow-up and application of telecommunications regulation and competition law files. She started her career as an attorney in various law firms in Brussels and Stockholm and she holds LL.Ms from KU Leuven and Université Libre de Bruxelles.