Bogdan Chelariu is an EU policy officer at CEE Bankwatch Network, where he is leading the Recovery and Cohesion Campaign. He ensures that funds comply with principles such as democratic openness during planning, programming, and implementation, as well as climate mainstreaming and environmental standards. In practice, this involves monitoring eight operational programmes from Central and Eastern Europe. Prior to this, he worked for over ten years in the Brussels Office of a Regional Developing Agency, a Managing Authority for Cohesion Policy Funds, dealing with policy and projects in areas such as cohesion, innovation, and interregional cooperation.