Email Address:
jan-willem-le.grand@minbuza.nl
Phone Number:
+31707599436
Occupation:
Coordinating policy researcher

Jan Willem le Grand has worked as a Coordinating Policy Researcher at IOB within the Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation cluster since September 2025. Jan Willem obtained his doctorate in 2014 for a study on rural development processes in Bolivia at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Previously, he studied Social Geography of the Developing Countries in Amsterdam (1988) and Public Policy and Management at the University of London (2006). Within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jan Willem worked at embassies in Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mozambique and Brazil and in The Hague at the Directorate Western Hemisphere and Directorate Multilateral Institutions and Human Rights.

IOB studies

IOB publications

Other publications

  • le Grand, J.W. (2019), Caminos de desarrollo de las comunidades: dinámicas rurales en los Valles Andinos de Bolivia, Fundación Tierra, La Paz, Bolivia.
  • le Grand, J W & Zoomers, E B (2017), Two decades of livelihood transformation and community pathways in the Bolivian Andes. in Livelihoods and Development : New Perspectives. Brill, pp. 95-123. 
  • le Grand, J.W. (2014), Sustainable Pathways or Troubled Development? Rural Community Dynamics in the Andean valleys of Bolivia. PhD Thesis. The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University.
  • le Grand, J.W. (1998), Desarrollo fragmentado: discontinuidades en el ámbito de intervención. In: A. Zoomers (Ed.), Estrategias Campesinas en el Surandino de Bolivia. Intervenciones y desarrollo rural en el norte de Chuquisaca y Potosí. La Paz: Plural, 361–396. 
  • le Grand, J. W. (1998). Buscando resultados: estrategias campesinas impactos colaterales. In: A. Zoomers (Ed.), Estrategias Campesinas en el Surandino de Bolivia. Intervenciones y desarrollo rural en el norte de Chuquisaca y Potosí. La Paz: Plural, 397-421.