Rabobank Australia and New Zealand’s new Regional Manager Caroline Oosterbaan has been appointed as a director of food and agribusiness specialist Rabobank New Zealand Limited, effective 18 March 2026.
She replaces Mark Wiessing, who retired as Regional Manager and stepped down from the board this month after three years in those roles.
Australian-born Ms Oosterbaan has a broad range of experience spanning international banking and finance, strategy consulting, mergers and acquisitions,entrepreneurship and supervisory roles.
Most recently, she has served as Global Head of Clients & Portfolio Management for Rabobank’s international Wholesale & Rural Business, based in the Netherlands.
Ms Oosterbaan has previously worked with NIBC Bank – where she spent five years as a member of the executive committee – and with ABN AMRO Bank. She has served as a director on a number of European boards, including in the food,retail, education, automotive/transport and not-for-profit sectors. She holds a Master of Science, in Business Economics, from Erasmus University in the Netherlands.
Caroline Oosterbaan, Rabobank Australia and New Zealand Regional Manager