Wibo Koole
Wibo Koole is head of the Consumer Policy Department of Consumentenbond, a Dutch consumers organization with over 650.000 members. The Consumentenbond’s mission is to enable consumers to make easier and better choices with respect to man and environment. Its main campaigning areas are health, food, and the information society (e-commerce, internet, telecommunications, broadcasting).
The Consumer Policy Unit organizes campaigning and lobbying activities towards producers, producers organizations and government nationally and internationally. Consumentenbond is an active member of BEUC, the Brussels based European lobbying organisation of consumers.
Mr. Koole is a member of the Consumer Committe of the Dutch Sociaal-Economisch Council (the official government advisory board on economic affairs) and of the Consumer Committee of the European Union. He is a political scientist by education and worked as an assistant professor at the Nijmegen University and as a management consultant.