Hanna Surmatz Hanna Surmatz is Head of Policy at the Philanthropy Europe Association Aisbl (Philea) since 2022. She has been leading the work at the European Foundation Centre Aisbl towards a favourable operating environment for foundations and philanthropy since 2004. She studied law at the University Münster, Germany and at the University of Poitiers, France and worked as assistant researcher at the University of Münster for several years. She has since 2017 been the representative of the philanthropic sector in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Private Sector Consultative Forum (PSCF). In 2021 she became a member of GECES the European Commission expert group on Social Economy. She also represents Philea in the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), CSO Liaison Group and together with ONCE Foundation in the Social Economy Europe board. She is one of the Co-Chairs of the global WINGS enabling environment working group.