Dick Veerman - moderator of Foodlog

Dick Veerman (1963) is the moderator of Foodlog, the leading Dutch community in news and opinion on food, agriculture & society. Veerman is considered an independent sharp mind on nutrition, food marketing, food politics, and the role of civil society and government in policy making.  

He was trained as a philosopher and linguist in Utrecht and Paris. Veerman started out his professional career as a strategist in the financial services industry (1988) and moved over to consulting in databased marketing (1995). A severe illness forced him to slow down in 1999; he completely recovered using a gentech based drug. In 2005, he founded Foodlog, one of the few interactive news sites that succeeds in keeping the conversation going while having impact on society.

Photocredits: Bas Uterwijk