Joost De Laat
Professor of Economics and Managing Director for the Social Sciences Group at Wageningen University & Research
Joost de Laat is Professor of Economics and Managing Director for the Social Sciences Group at Wageningen University & Research, responsible for the Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen Economic Research , and the Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation. Joost is an applied microeconomist (PhD, Brown University) with a trans- and interdisciplinary research and teaching focus on poverty and sustainability in low- and middle income countries. He worked at Harvard University and the University of Quebec at Montreal before joining the World Bank, where he managed its Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund, and Porticus, a global philanthropy. Between 2018 and 2024, Joost was professor of Economics at Utrecht University and director of the Utrecht University Centre for Global Challenges.
