Stig Erik Sørheim is head of the international department of Actis – Norwegian Policy Network on Alcohol and Drugs. He is currently president of EURAD Asbl, a European policy network for prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and recovery. In his work he follows international alcohol and drug policy on the European and global level. He is on the board of several European and regional alcohol, drug and gambling policy networks. He has also been the vice-chair of the European Civil Society Forum on Drugs. He was formerly a senior adviser in the Norwegian Directorate of Health, working on alcohol and drug issues and social inequalities in health. He earned his Cand. Philol. degree in the humanities at the University of Oslo.