Nienke Boesveldt is a project manager in the city of Amsterdam, working in the Housing and Social Support Department. She is responsible for homeless policy in the city of Amsterdam.

She is a member of HABITACT – European exchange forum on local homeless strategies and has hosted a HABITACT peer review in March 2010 on the Amsterdam homeless strategy. She worked as a researcher for the University of Utrecht and the National Institute for Mental Health and Addiction, working specifically on vulnerable groups such as public mental Health and child protection issues.

Besides her current activities as a policy-maker for the city of Amsterdam she is currently undertaking a PhD on the Governance of Homelessness in three Northern European Metropolises (Amsterdam, Copenhagen and a third Anglo Saxon case). She plans to finish her book on this by the end of this year.