Ruben Korsten

Background

About Ruben Korsten

I am a legal counsel at the Colruyt Group (a Belgium-based retail group), with my primary focus on matters pertaining to competition, economic law and procurement. I am also a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Structural Fire Engineering Team (leading the law and economics work package for the AFireTest project, more info here: https://lnkd.in/eBAMNCG3) and a Teaching Assistant and Researcher at the Center of Advanced Studies in Law and Economics (CASLE) both at Ghent University, Belgium. Finally, I also offer policy advice as a law and economics consultant. I graduated law with honors and obtained my master degree in Private Law (LL.M) at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). I also hold master degrees in Law and Economics (Msc./LL.M.) from the Indira Ghandi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai (India), Hamburg University (Germany) and the University of Bologna (Italy). Furthermore, I completed a PhD in Law and Economics and am currently working as a PD at Ghent University. I was a visiting scholar at the Pontifical Xavierian University, Bogota (Colombia) and at Loyola University, Baltimore (MD, US).