Karlijn Morsink is an associate professor of economics at the Utrecht University School of Economics, a senior researcher at the Development Economics Group at Wageningen University and program director of development economics at the Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk (CEAR) at Georgia State University. She is a member of the Network of Development Economists in the Netherlands and the European Development Research Network (EUDN). Morsink received her Ph.D. in development economics at the University of Twente.