Professor E.B. (Annelies) Zoomers

Role

Chair, Development Cooperation Committee

Annelies Zoomers is professor of International Development Studies (IDS) at Utrecht University (https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/EBZoomers). After finishing her PhD in 1988, she worked for the Netherlands Economic Institute (Rotterdam) and the Royal Tropical Institute (Amsterdam) on long- and short-term consulting assignments for various organizations (e.g. the World Bank, IFAD, ILO, EU, DGIS) in various countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Between 1995 and 2007 she was associate professor at the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (Amsterdam) and was professor of International Migration at the Radboud University (Nijmegen) between 2005 and 2009. She is founding chair of LANDac (https://landgovernance.org/)  and the Shared Value Foundation (https://www.sharedvaluefoundation.com/) She has published extensively on sustainable livelihoods and poverty alleviaton, the global land rush and international migration.

Other positions

• Member of the supervisory board for the “Pathways to Sustainability programme", Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University.
• Member of RCN portfolio board on Global development at The Research Council of Norway. 
• Founding Chair/ director of the board of the Shared Value Foundation (SVF).  
• Chair of the International Development Group, Utrecht University.