E. B Zoomers

Annelies ('E.B.') Zoomers (born 3 May 1959, Amstelveen) is a Dutch professor in International Development Studies at the University of Utrecht.

Early life and education Annelies Zoomers spent her childhood in Amstelveen, Enschede, Naaldwijk and Utrecht. After obtaining her pre-university education diploma from Niels Stensen College in Utrecht, she studied human geography at Utrecht University, specializing in Human Geography of Developing Countries. She obtained her doctorate in 1984 (field research in Mexico and Mali). From 1984 to 1988 she was a PhD candidate in the Department of Human Geography of the Development Areas of the Radboud University in Nijmegen. For her dissertation, she spent 13 months in Paraguay between 1985 and 1988. She studied aspects of rural development in Central Paraguay and obtained her PhD in 1988 with Jan Kleinpenning for a thesis entitled 'Rural Development and Survival Strategies in Central Paraguay; the policy of agricultural colonization as an instrument to alleviate the situation of the rural poor'.

Career After her PhD, she worked for the Netherlands Economic Institute in Rotterdam and the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam on projects for, among others, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Netherlands), the World Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, and the International Labour Organization) in several countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Between 1995 and 2007 she was a researcher at the Center for the Study and Documentation of Latin America of the University of Amsterdam. Current land policy in Latin America: regulating land tenure under neo-liberalism. KIT Publications & Iberoamericana/Vervuert Verlag, Amsterdam/Frankfurt/Madrid, 2000, 330 pp. (with G. van der Haar) Linking livelihood strategies to development: experiences from the Bolivian Andes. KIT-CEDLA. Amsterdam, 1999, 108 pp.