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Welcome to my personal website. I am Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. My field of research is development economics, and most of my work is linked to the following topics:

The role of hope and aspirations in economic development
The impact of public-private interventions in food value chains

I have conducted projects in Indonesia, Kenya and Rwanda, and am currently working on projects in the Philippines, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Uganda.