Elvira Haezendonck

Prof. dr. Elvira Haezendonck (PhD, 2001, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences and Solvay Business School) is full professor at VUB, and guest professor at the University of Antwerp (UA). Her research covers various topics in the field of strategy and policy related to ports, transport and infrastructure: environmental strategy, competitive analysis, asset management, complex projects, socio-economic impacts, and CSR. She teaches courses in Competitive Strategy, Port Management and Strategy, Project Management, and Microeconomics of Competitiveness, mostly on 3rd Bachelor and Master level. She is guest lecturer at EUR-Rotterdam (executive master in Maritime Economics and Logistics) and at ULB-Brussels (executive master in Management of Large Construction Projects). Since 2010 she is Chair holder, first of the Research Chair on Public-private Partnerships and since 2019 she holds a Chair on Infrastructure Asset Management and Life Cycle Planning at VUB. She has published various articles, books and book chapters in these domains, and she has been involved in over 80 national and EU research projects on strategy analyses for ports, socio-economic analysis of new investment projects and impact assessments. Her latest co-edited book (with Alain Verbeke) "Sustainable Port Clusters and Economic Development" is currently in press with Palgrave MacMillan (2019).