Edith Desiree de Leeuw (born April 12, 1962) is a Dutch psychologist, statistician, research methodologist, and professor in survey methodology and survey quality, at the University of Utrecht.

In 1992 she obtained her PhD in the social and cultural sciences at the VU University Amsterdam under Hans van der Zouwen and Don Mellenbergh with the thesis, entitled "Data quality in mail, telephone and face to face surveys."

In 1987 De Leeuw had received a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Social and Economic Sciences Research Center of Washington State University.

She came into prominence as assistant to Wim T. Schippers in the National Science Quiz, where she participated from 1994 to 2002.

De Leeuw won the outstanding service award of the European Survey Research Association in 2017.