Eleonora Nillesen#
| Membership Number: | 6406 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.merit.unu.edu/about-us/profile/?staff_id=2037 |
Present and Previous Positions
- September 2021 - present: Head of Research Unit Governance of Innovation, UNU-MERIT/Maastricht University
- February 2019 - present Full Professor and chairholder of the Public Policy and Development group, Maastricht University
- February 2014 - January 2019 Senior researcher UNU-MERIT Maastricht, the Netherlands
- June 2010 - January 2014 Post-doctoral researcher Development Economics Group, Wageningen University
- March 2007 - June 2010 PhD researcher Development Economics Group Wageningen University, and DIW Berlin
- July 2009 - July 2010 Visiting fellow Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zürich
- January 2005 - December 2006 Researcher Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group, Wageningen University
- November 2002 - November 2004 Consultant Witteveen+Bos B.V. Rotterdam
Fields of Scholarship
- Field experiments
- Behavioral experiments
- Development economics
- Gender
- Economic preferences
- MENA region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Poverty reduction
- Household decision-making
- Applied microeconomics
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Senior Researcher Award, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University
