“Meetings are as effective as the actions that come out of them.”

Wilbert van Vree made it his mission to do something about our daily meeting misery. He calls himself a meetings expert, and as far as anyone knows he is the only one in the world.

In his doctoral thesis, Nederland als vergaderland, he describes the history of meetings. The English edition, Meetings, Manners and Civilization, won the Norbert Elias Prize. Research and practice come together in Van Vree’s Vergaderwijzer, the most widely read Dutch handbook on meetings.

His academic publications are listed under Articles.