In his role as Senior Manager of Public Affairs and Policy, Matias supports EUCOPE on key topics, covering among others, EU HTA, advanced diagnostics, the Pharmaceutical Strategy, EU’s cancer plan, blood, tissues and cells legislation and relevant market access topics. He coordinates members’ thematic working groups, including the P&R/Market Access Working Group, the Genomics Working Group and the EU HTA Regulation Task Force. Matias has previously advocated on behalf of European cancer patients, and before moving to Brussels worked in the claims department of the Norwegian Social Security Administration before he switched his role from reimbursements to the control department, where he worked with the coordination of social security within the EU/EEA.