Loes Debuysere specialises in the monitoring and evaluation of international development projects and those aimed at social change. In the past she worked as a researcher at the Department of Conflict and Development Studies of Ghent University and in the foreign policy unit of CEPS a European think tank. She is a graduate in Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She holds a PhD from Ghent University which focused on gender politics in post-revolutionary Tunisia. She has published in a number of academic journals (Mediterranean Politics: Middle East Law and Governance: Review of African Political Economy: European Foreign Affairs Review).