Annemarie van Zeijl - Rozema (A.E.)

Annemarie van Zeijl-Rozema graduated as a Master of Science in Tropical Land Use from Wageningen University, The Netherlands. She obtained her PhD at Maastricht University on “Regional sustainable development: Barriers in practice”.

Her main challenge is to connect science to practice and find ways for how to “do” sustainable development. A leading question is “How can science help to deal with sustainability problems that are inherently unstructured problems with no clear solution?”. She uses her knowledge about integrated assessment, joint knowledge production, co-creation, governance, sustainability indicators, and regional development to make a difference. Her interest lies both in developed and developing countries.

Expertises

Sustainable development, education for sustainable development, integrated assessment, joint knowledge production, co-creation, governance, sustainability indicators, regional development, energy retrofitting 

Career history

1995: Master of Science from Wageningen University, The Netherlands, in Tropical Land Use, specialisation Management of Natural Resources.

1995-1997:  worked in the field of land use changes related to global change, and acted as a programme officer for an EU funded project on the coordination of land use data in Europe.

1997-1999: moved to Yemen to work as a programme officer for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

1999-2001: worked at FAO headquarters in Italy on policy development regarding sustainable agriculture and rural development.

2002-2004: worked free-lance for the University of Maastricht.

2004: joined the Department of International and European Law as programme manager for several projects dealing with risk management.

2005-now: works for MSI (formerly known as ICIS), first as research fellow and currently as associate professor in sustainable development.

  • She has been the principal investigator on a number of projects, see "Research> Projects".
  • She is course coordinator for the course Problem Based Learning and Academic skills.
  • She teaches in a number of courses, see "Education"
  • She is MSI-MT member for Education