Vicki de Klerk-Rubin, R.N., M.B.A., is the European manager of the Validation Training Institute and a certified Validation trainer. Ms. de Klerk-Rubin holds a master's of business administration from Fordham University and is a Dutch-trained registered nurse.

Ms. de Klerk-Rubin is the daughter of Naomi Feil, the founder of the Validation method, and has been working with people with dementia and their families for more than 15 years. She has given Validation workshops, lectures, and training programs in Austria, Belgium, England, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, and the United States of America. She also has worked in numerous nursing facilities in Amsterdam, leading Validation groups and training staff.

She is the co-author of the 1992 revision of Validation: The Feil Method and the 2nd edition of The Validation Breakthrough: Simple Techniques for Communicating with People with "Alzheimer's-Type Dementia."

Ms. de Klerk-Rubin, a native New Yorker, is married to a Dutch diplomat and has two daughters who were born in Vienna, Austria. Together they have spent the last 20 years living in Amsterdam, Vienna, Bonn, and The Hague. Ms. de Klerk-Rubin and her family recently returned to New York City.