Wikipedia:Anneke van Zanen-Nieberg

Johanna Maria "Anneke" van Zanen-Nieberg (born 30 December 1963) is a former handball player and a Dutch sports executive. She is the chairman of NOC*NSF since 22 May 2019.

Handball player
As a handball player she played with Hellas Den Haag in the Eredivisie. She also played for the Netherlands junior national team.

Work
Van Zanen-Nieberg was educated as a chartered accountant. She worked as a chartered accountant at various accountancy and tax consultancy firms. Between 2001 and 2006 she was director of the Court of Audit and she worked as a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Finance. From 2018 to 2019 she was chairman of the board of directors of Baker Tilly. Van Zanen-Nieberg succeeded André Bolhuis in 2019 as chairman of NOC*NSF. In June 2021, she did not receive enough votes to became a member of the board of the European Olympic Committee (EOC). Important issues she had to deal with during her time as chairman were among others effect on sports of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands and the gymnastic scandals.

Personal
Van Zanen-Nieberg has several family members who played at a high sport level. Van Zanen-Nieberg is married and has four children.