
Dr. Simone Fritzen has been a member of the European Cooperative since 2016. In the same year, she completed her doctorate at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Excellence in Bonn on the topic of the relevance of trust-building measures between actors in value chains of the agricultural and food industry. During her studies she qualified as a DGQ-EQA-Quality-Systemmanager and worked as a lecturer for business administration at different vocational training institutions and universities. After many years of freelance work as a management consultant in B2B communication, she has been working in the field of nature conservation and sustainability at a federal agency since 2023.