Dr. Anne van Ewijk earned her PhD in Political and Social Sciences from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain) in 2011, with a qualitative study comparing diversity policies of two European regional police forces, the Mossos d'Esquadra and the Politie Utrecht. Since 2007, she has worked as a management consultant for &samhoud and KPMG in Spain and the Netherlands, advising on organizational change, team building, and leadership development in various sectors (e.g. coatings, finance, and education). 

In 2015, she returned to academia upon relocating to the United Arab Emirates. Joining as an Assistant Professor for Abu Dhabi University in traditional Al Ain, she eventually advanced to Associate Professor in Management after transferring to the new graduate campus in Dubai. During that time, Anne van Ewijk shifted her research focus towards entrepreneurship education. She was selected by the UAE Ministry of Education as part of a group of faculty from various universities to receive training from the Stanford Center for Professional Development as entrepreneurship instructors, later passing on this training to others. Her research focuses on entrepreneurial intention, inspiration, and motivation in entrepreneurship education. She has taught courses in (International) Business, Leadership, Qualitative Research Methods, and Entrepreneurship across undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive programs. In 2019, she received the Best University Teaching Award for her interactive, practice-oriented, and skill-building teaching approach. 

Anne van Ewijk joined the Utrecht University School of Economics in 2021 in the role of departmental lecturer, actively exploring ways to innovate the delivery and impact measurement of entrepreneurship education. For three years, she was an active member of the LEG faculty Educate-It committee. In 2024, Anne van Ewijk was appointed as Assistant Professor with focus on educational design, leadership, and innovation. She coordinates the Fundamentals in Business Economics program for Science students (part of the master Science & Business Management, and management minor for students from other science masters), the Professional Skills course for all USE students in one-year master programs, and the course Science-Based Entrepreneurship. She also collaborates on the design and implementation of educational pilots with the Utrecht University Center for Entrepreneurship, and on university-wide skills education in the program team of the UU Skills Academy. Finally, she designed and runs a yearly module on design thinking for professionals, and is member of the program committee (binnenstad) on UU executive education.