Anne-Lies Risseeuw is a governance and public policy specialist and combines project management skills with 30 years of working experience on the topics of local government development, decentralization, urban development and service delivery issues. She has been involved in the evaluation of various international development projects. Anne-Lies has also specialized in working with local government associations at national and regional level.

At VNG International, she has worked as a senior project manager of capacity development projects, based on institutional strengthening, inter-municipal cooperation and peer-to-peer cooperation in various countries in Africa, the Middle-East, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Pacific and has conducted various technical assistance missions in these continents. Anne-Lies has also assisted in establishing a daughter organisation f VNG International in Tunisia while being based there in 2015 and 2016.

Anne-Lies is a professional manager with strategic policy development skills, strong relational management skills and subject matter expertise on capacity development.

Anne-Lies has been managing various international projects financed by different donor organizations since 1992. She conducted numerous technical assistance missions to Jordan, Tunisia, Iraq, Lebanon, Mali, Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal, Uruguay, Rwanda, Kenya, Burundi, Tanzania, Nigeria, the Netherlands Antilles, Suriname, Zimbabwe, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Mexico. At VNG International she also coached junior colleagues in their project activities, and has specialized in financial management and reporting. She has provided backstopping on projects managed by other VNG International staff in The Hague and by VNG International daughter organizations. At WASTE she held the post of coordinator of a consortium of 7 urban development organizations from 4 continents.

Anne-Lies Risseeuw provides management and technical assistance in the field of local government capacity development, citizen participation, communication and extension work, municipal decentralized co-operation and awareness raising for international co-operation.