Annemarie van Zeijl – Rozema

Annemarie van Zeijl-Rozema graduated as a Master of Science from Wageningen University, The Netherlands, in 1995. She studied Tropical Land Use and specialised in Management of Natural Resources. In 2011 she obtained at ICIS-Maastricht University her PhD on “Regional sustainable development: Barriers in practice”.

Current topics of interest are sustainability policy and policy for sustainable development (two different things!); how to make policy decisions based on sustainable development principles, including how to provide the information a decision-maker needs in order to make a decision; how to improve knowledge integration from different fields of expertise and from non-scientific and scientific sources; how to measure sustainable development while ensuring regional characteristics; how to realise sustainable development in developing countries where weak governance structures are often hampering progress.

From 1995-1997 she 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. In 1997 she moved to Yemen to work as a programme officer for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. From 1999-2001 she worked at FAO headquarters in Italy on policy development regarding sustainable agriculture and rural development. Since 2002 she worked free-lance for the University of Maastricht. In April 2004 she joined the Department of International and European Law as programme manager for several projects dealing with risk management.

Since March 2005 she works for ICIS as a researcher on sustainable development. In this position she has been work package leader for the EU funded FP6 project INSURE  on integrated monitoring of sustainable development, and she was principal investigator of the project “Governance for sustainable development; the case of Limburg, the Netherlands” funded by the Province of Limburg. Results of both projects served as input for her PhD thesis. She developed, taught and coordinated the Master course “Governance for sustainable development: concepts and practice”. Currently, she is member of the Supervisory Board of the University’s Green Office, and member of the European Sustainability Science Group.