World Council of Optometry
The World Council of Optometry is a membership organization for the development of optometry internationally. The WCO is the first and only optometric organization to have official relations with the World Health Organization which represents 250,000 optometrists from 75 member organizations in over 40 countries.
The WCO organizes the World Congress of Optometry.
In 2015, the WCO relocated to the American Optometric Association headquarters in St Louis, Missouri, United States.