Marijke D'Haese

Marijke D’Haese is professor in rural development economics. She spent her childhood in Africa and returned to home-country Belgium to study Bioscience engineering at Ghent University. She graduated as a bioscience engineer in 1997, after which she was appointed as a research assistant at the Department of Agricultural Economics of that university. This six-years teaching-research appointment resulted in a PhD on the economics of woolgowers’ associations in the Transkei region in South Africa in 2003. In 2004 she left Ghent to work as an assistant professor at the Development Economics Group at Wageningen University. She returned to Ghent in 2007, first as post-doc assistant and from 2010 as a professor. She teaches on development economics and rural development.