Anna Louise Custers
Professor of Poverty Interventions
Anna's work focuses on gaining a better understanding of poverty and debt issues in all their various forms. Together with her research group, Anna investigates which types of interventions in the field of poverty are effective and which are not, and for which citizens. In addition to being a lecturer, Anna is also programme leader for Poverty and Livelihood Security at the Centre of Expertise Urban Education.
Expertises
Poverty reduction | Debt counselling | Livelihood security | Impact assessment | Effective interventions | Tax/benefitsĀ
Contact
- E-mail:Ā a.l.custers@hva.nl
- Telephone: +31-628954803
- LinkedIn: Ā Anna Custers onĀ LinkedIn
About Anna Custers
Anna Custers has been professor of Poverty Interventions since April 2022. Anna is an economist and has worked for the World Bank in Washington D.C. and Afghanistan, among other places. There, she focused on improving tax systems and conducted research into tax morale and citizens' trust in their government. She obtained her PhD from the University of Oxford with a thesis on debt problems in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in London.
Anna's work focuses on gaining a better understanding of poverty and debt problems in all their various forms. Together with her research group, Anna investigates which types of poverty interventions are effective for which citizens and which are not. A practical approach, researched and developed in collaboration with service professionals and people who experience poverty themselves, is central to this.
In addition to her role as professor, Anna is also programme leader for Poverty and Livelihood Security at the Centre of Expertise Urban Education on family livelihood security.