Prof. Guido Van Huylenbroeck is a full professor in Agricultural and Rural Environmental Economics at Ghent University, where he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering (2008–2015) and has since then been appointed the Director of Internationalization. He holds a PhD in agricultural economics since 1988 and is Doctor honoris causa of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Aleksandras Stulginskis University in Lithuania, and Slovak Agricultural University. His research area is institutional economics, agricultural policy, and rural development. He is also the founder of the Erasmus Mundus international joint master's degree in rural development (IMRD). He is an author/co-author of 350 publications and supervised 30 PhD theses. He also served as a board member and treasurer (2005–2017) of the European Association of Agricultural Economists and board member and president (2010–2016) of the European Association of Agricultural Universities and Faculties.
