Lidewij Heerkens

Analyst

Offices: Netherlands

Email: lidewij.heerkens@technopolis-group.com

Lidewij Heerkens is an analyst at Technopolis Group in Amsterdam. She has a background in both policy analysis and engineering reflecting in her wide range of quantitative and qualitative research methods including surveys, interviews, data analysis and modelling.

At Technopolis Lidewij still focuses her work on a variety of fields. Currently, she is contributing to projects for the Inter-University Council for East Africa, the Association of African Universities and the World Bank. One of the project she is part of is Evaluation of the Attainment of the Development Impact of the African Centres of Excellence. Next to that,  she is currently working Evaluation of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund for Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs of the European Commission. 

Prior to Technopolis, Lidewij has contributed to several studies with public and academic implications. As part of a research team from the Delft University of Technology, she researched the challenge of defining an inspection strategy that effectively combines risk-based and random inspection methods for the Dutch and Austrian food safety authorities. Before, she researched the state of a data security in the humanitarian sector collaborating with UNOCHA, leading to a paper publication in the Digital Humanitarian Network.

She obtained her undergraduate diploma in Industrial Design from the Eindhoven University of Technology, and she obtained a master’s degree in Engineering and Policy Analysis from the Delft University of Technology. She is fluent in Dutch and English.