Karlijn Morsink is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Utrecht University School of Economics and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and the VU University Amsterdam. She is a member of the The Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), the Blavatnik School of Government (BSG) and the European Development Research Network (EUDN). Morsink received her Ph.D. in development economics at the University of Twente.