Luuk Zonneveld Luuk Zonneveld

Luuk  Zonneveld is Chief Executive Officer of the Belgian Investment  Company  for  Developing Countries (BIO) since December 2012.

Luuk Zonneveld has worked in development since the 1980s, in particular in the promotion and financing of the private sector.

From 2008 to 2012, he was Managing Director of the Belgian non-profit  organisation Vredeseilanden. Previously, he was one of the architects of the success of Fairtrade labeling, as Managing director of its global umbrella Fairtrade International in Bonn, from 2001 to 2007.

After graduating in Psychology, Sociology and Economics in France and the Netherlands, he started his career as a journalist. Later he held various positions in the international trade business and within NGOs and organisations active in North-South Cooperation such as Oxfam, in the Netherlands, Germany and Cuba.


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