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Carolin Hulke is an Assistant Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics. She specialized in researching the complex interlinkages between globalized economies and local development outcomes, with a strong focus on regional resilience and inclusive development in Global South countries. Carolin completed her Ph.D. at the University of Cologne in 2022, where she explored local and regional horticulture value chains in Namibia and their connections to the global tourism industry. Her academic pursuits include examining multi-layered governance processes that enhance the sustainability of value chains from an evolutionary perspective. Between 2018 and 2023, she was actively engaged in a large collaborative research center titled "Future Rural Africa," conducting in-depth mixed-methods research in Southern Africa alongside an international interdisciplinary team. Her broader research questions tackle how rural regions in the Global South can transform their economies in socially and environmentally sensitive ways, particularly concerning critical approaches to global value chains and regionalization dynamics amid multiple crises.
Department of Economics