About us

Consumer Competition Claims Foundation

Our mission: protecting the consumer

The Consumer Competition Claims Foundation protects European consumers against unfair commercial practices and violations of consumer law.

When companies abuse their dominant position or form cartels, you suffer damage as a consumer. For example, if a cartel or monopolist is controlling or manipulating the market, you will pay prices higher than you should be paying. That is when the foundation takes action. It makes every effort to ensure that the unfair, unlawful conduct stops and that the damage and loss is repaid to the consumer. We always try to find a solution in consultation first. But if necessary, we go to court.

In legal terms, the foundation takes action on behalf of European consumers against infringements of competition law, fraudulent or misleading acts, unfair commercial practices and violations of consumer law.

Non-profit and independent

The foundation is independent and has both a Board of Directors and Supervisory Board. The foundation operates on a non-profit basis. We represent the consumers, without wanting to make a profit in exchange for our representation.

Claim Code

The foundation adheres to the Dutch governance code for foundations and associations representing collective interests (the so-called Claim Code). We have an accountability document in which we explain how we apply the Claim Code. This includes the remuneration of directors of the foundation. You can find this document here.

Board of Directors

Albert Heikens

Albert Heikens is the chair of the board. Albert is an experienced lawyer, director and supervisory board member. Albert was an attorney for 40 years, including eight years as managing partner of the international law firm AKD (where he is currently still of counsel) Since 2014, he has been a supervisory director at various (international) companies. Between March 2014 and December 2020, Albert was chairman of the supervisory board of one of the larger Dutch educational institutions. He is also a member of the Association for Mass Damage and Collective Action (Vereniging voor Massaschade en Collectieve Actie).

Ariënne Gommers

Ariënne Gommers is a general board member. She is a competition law expert at AGLegal. Previously, she worked for the Dutch Competition Authority, the Autoriteit Consument & Markt, for over twelve years, including in a managing position as head of unit. She has in-depth expertise in the field of (European) competition law. After working in the public enforcement of competition law as a regulator, she now helps to work on the private enforcement of competition law as a board member of the foundation. Earlier in her career, Ariënne worked as a lawyer at Wijn & Stael advocaten, where she gained extensive experience in procedural law. She also has experience as a supervisory board member in the healthcare sector. Ariënne is also a member of the Association for Mass Damage and Collective Action (Vereniging voor Massaschade en Collectieve Actie).

Roelof Prins

Roelof Prins is an experienced financial expert, with more than twenty years of experience as a private equity investor. He was managing director of HAL Investments B.V. and of NPM Capital N.V. Roelof is also an experienced independent board member of several for-profit companies and philanthropic organizations. For example, he is the chair of the Supervisory Board of Iqip Holding B.V., a leading company in the field of construction projects in the offshore wind, coastal and civil as well as oil and gas markets. Additionally, he serves on the board of Droom en Daad Foundation and on several boards associated with De Verre Bergen Foundation programs. Roelof has a BA mathematics and economics from Wesleyan University (1979) and an MBA from Harvard University (1983).

Supervisory Board

Hans de Savornin Lohman

Hans de Savornin Lohman is a lawyer in the field of corporate and commercial litigation at VerbeekdeCaluwé. From 1991 to 2015 Hans worked at law firm Loyens & Loeff. Between 2004 and 2025, Hans also served as a deputy judge at the Court of Appeal in The Hague. He is a member of the supervisory board of a foundation dedicated to consumers who were victims of the diesel scandal.

Giorgio Monti

Giorgio Monti is chair of the Supervisory Board. Giorgio Monti is professor of Competition Law at the Tilburg University and research fellow at the Center for Regulation in Europe. He has held positions at the London School of Economics and the European University Institute. He has nearly 30 years of experience in researching and teaching law, with expertise in EU, UK and US competition law in particular. As scientific director of the Florence Competition Programme he helped devise a successful judicial training programme, which attracts judges from all EU Member States. He has provided policy reports on a number of EU initiatives, including the Geo-Blocking Regulation and the Digital Markets Act. He is the co-author of one of the leading student books on EU Law and a joint editor of one of the principal journals in the field: the Common Market Law Review.

Suzanne Keijl

Suzanne works as an independent supervisory board member and advisor. She holds several supervisory positions, including Chair of the Supervisory Board of Cerios, member of the Supervisory Board of Takeaway.com Payments (part of Just Eat Takeaway), member of the Supervisory Board of HW Wonen, member of the Supervisory Board of Wadinko, and external member of the Audit Committee of the Ministry of Finance. Previously, Suzanne served as a member of the Investment Committee of ROM InWest and InnovationQuarter, and as an external member of the Audit Committee of the Dutch National Police. From 2001 to 2020, Suzanne was a partner at PwC Accountants, where she was responsible for IT audit services to clients in the financial and public sectors, the innovation of PwC’s service offerings in the Netherlands and Europe, and ISO certification activities within PwC Certification B.V. She also served as Managing Partner of the Risk Assurance business unit. Suzanne completed her postgraduate accountancy education at Erasmus University and passed the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) examination of ISACA. She has also served as Chair of the Advisory Board of the postgraduate programme in IT Audit, Compliance and Advisory at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Central Insolvency Registry

Through the website of the Dutch Central Insolvency Registry (rechtspraak.nl – in Dutch) you can verify that Stichting Consumenten Competition Claims is not in bankruptcy, no petition for bankruptcy is pending, no suspension of payments has been granted to Stichting Consumenten Competition Claims and no (public) WHOA proceedings are pending.

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