Leon de Wolff

Leon de Wolff
Leon de Wolff in August 2013.
Born	(1948-09-26)26 September 1948 Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Died	3 January 2014(2014-01-03) (aged 65) Epse, Gelderland, Netherlands
Alma mater	Erasmus University Rotterdam
Occupation(s)	Journalist, media consultant and researcher
Years active	1972–2014

Leon de Wolff (26 September 1948 – 3 January 2014) was a Dutch journalist and media consultant and researcher.

Leon de Wolff died from multiple system atrophy (MSA) on 3 January 2014, aged 65, in Epse near Lochem, Gelderland.^[1]

De Wolff graduated from the International School in Jerusalem in the 1960s, which gave him admission to the Mathenesser HBS in Rotterdam where he graduated in 1970. He then studied business sociology and business administration at Erasmus University in Rotterdam where he graduated cum laude in 1976. In 2012 he received his doctorate from the same university with Henri Beunders on a study of subscribers' loyalty to their newspaper.

Leon de Wolff held various journalistic positions at, among others, NRC Handelsblad (1972-1977), Haagse Post (1977-1983) and FEM Business (1984-1987). From 1987 he ran his own agency specializing in research, consulting and training. The disease MSA forced him to discontinue much of his work.