Sander Happaerts

• Senior Research Associate at Sustainable Development Research Group, HIVA - Research Institute for Work and Society

Contact Data

• HIVA -Research Institute for Work and Society
  KU Leuven
  Parkstraat 47 - box 5300
  B-3000 Leuven
• Telephone +32 16 32 31 03
• Fax +32 16 32 33 44
  E-mail: sander.happaerts@hiva.kuleuven.be

Short Bio

Dr. Sander Happaerts is a postdoctoral researcher at HIVA, KU Leuven. His research focuses on multilateral governance for natural resource use and sustainable materials management. Sander also coordinates the Flemish Policy Research Centre on Transitions for Sustainable Development.

Between 2007 and 2011 he worked as a researcher at the Institute for International and European Policy, KU Leuven. In 2010, he held a visiting fellowship at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM, Canada), where he joined the Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development Research Chair. He obtained his PhD in 2011, with a dissertation on governance for sustainable development at the subnational level.

Sander holds a Master’s degree in International Relations and Conflict Management (2006) and in Romance Languages and Literature (2005). In 2006, he interned at the Permanent Representation of Belgium to the United Nations, where he assisted the Security Council team.