Dr. Heidi Hanssens

Heidi Hanssens (°1984, Ngarama) is research assistant at the Geography Department of Ghent University and a research fellow of the Globalization and World Cities group and network (GaWC).

She holds a Master's degree in Geography (Ghent University). Her PhD research is funded by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), and deals with the conceptual relations between global commodity chain and world city network research.