Carin Vijfhuizen

Carin Vijfhuizen was born in the Netherlands and has two children. She holds a BSc in agricultural economics and an MSc and PhD in development sociology from Wageningen University. She has been working for 32 years for different Dutch organizations, universities, and projects in various countries of Africa, the Middle East, Europe and South East Asia. She is a rural development sociologist and an international expert in capacity and institutional strengthening, leadership and gender. She is the Director of SLEE-B (Strengthening Leadership in Education and Enterprise – Balancing). She works and publishes books in the areas of her expertise. She also writes poems, sings, takes photographs and hikes in nature (see www.carinvijfhuizen.com).