Position
Lecturer and PhD Student
Research interests
Development Economics, International Economics
PhD project
Naomi Leefmans' research focuses on industrial development and economic
growth in Tanzania, inter alia investigating the effects of uncertainty on firm
investment and the effects of trade openness on the productivity of
manufacturing firms.
Short biography
Naomi Leefmans is a Lecturer in Economics (2006-2011) and finishing her PhD
thesis. Naomi holds a Master's degree in Economics from the Free University in
Amsterdam, with a specialisation in Development Economics. She worked as a
Senior Policy Adviser Economic Affairs at the Africa Department of the
Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2009), as an International Project
Leader and Consultant at Ecorys Netherlands BV (2000-2004) and as a researcher
on several international projects at the United Nations Economic Commission for
Latin America in Mexico City, at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague
and at the Forum on Debt and Development (1997-2000). Topics she has worked on
include international trade, development aid, regional integration, African
growth and development.