Koen Boone

Managing Director, Europe, The Sustainability Consortium

^{Koen Boone is a financial economist employed by Wageningen University and Research and European Director of the Sustainability Consortium (TSC). TSC (www.sustainabilityconsortium.org) develops and standardises methods to measure sustainability on product level together with more than 100 global NGO’s, universities and companies. Before joining TSC, Koen led a research/statistical unit of about 80 FTE monitoring sustainability of Dutch agriculture. Koen has 20 years of experience in measuring sustainability of all types of products and sectors. He is a member of several advisory committees on sustainability investment and communication of sustainability to consumers. He worked with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) on the development of GRI guidelines for sustainability reporting for the Food Processing Industry and developed sustainability scans for agribusiness.}