Annelies (E.B.) Zoomers is professor of International Development Studies (IDS) at Utrecht University, and member of the Advisory Council on International Affairs for the Dutch government. She is the co-founder of the Netherlands' Land Academy (LANDac) and Shared Value Foundation (SVF) and wsa chair of WOTRO Science for global development from 2019-2022. 

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, between 2005 and 2009, professor of International Migration at the Radboud University (Nijmegen). She has published extensively on sustainable livelihoods and poverty alleviaton in relation to climate change, the global land rush, and international migration.