People
Aad Weening
International, Weening & Partners
Aad has been involved in distance selling practically all his working life. From 1966 until 1979 he worked at a professional secretariat agency offering legal and economic advice as well as lobbying services to ten trade sectors.
From 1979 he was based in Delft, the Netherlands where he managed the Dutch Mail Order Association. In this capacity he was in charge of the lobbying contacts with the Ministries of Economic Affairs, Justice, and Finance.
Aad also managed the contract negotiations with Dutch (then) PTT, today TNT Post for over 10 years. During his career he has developed a huge network of contacts in the European and global postal business community.
In January 1993 he was appointed secretary general of the Brussels based European Distance Selling Trade Association (EMOTA). In this capacity he represented the distance selling sector to European institutions, Universal Postal Union, the World Trade Organisation and the OECD on issues such as legal, consumer protection, consumer credit, international contract law, and postal services.
Aad spend a considerable time in the “new” countries of Central and Eastern Europe and also developed close contacts in Russia, Ukraine, India, China and Turkey. This enabled Aad to set up an unrivalled network of contacts for assisting companies to access these developing markets.
In 2007 Aad established his own consultancy. Through this he leverages his extensive knowledge of many trade sectors and the functioning of the European institutions, countries and other International bodies. Aad is regularly invited to participate as speaker and chairman at European and international conferences.
He is fluent in English, French, German and Dutch, and has a working knowledge of Italian and Spanish.
CONTACT
Aad Weening, Weening & Partners
+32 474 951341
aad@weening.biz
www.kborresearch.com
