Maria Pilar Lorenzo is a Doctoral Researcher at Ghent University’s Centre for Higher Education Governance Ghent. She focuses her research on regionalisation and its effects on higher education, with the aim of bringing about a more holistic and long-term element to the development and education sectors. Maria places great weight on an interdisciplinary approach to her work, crediting her time working at NGOs and technical-vocational schools as being formative in informing her academic approach. Maria was also previously a Graduate Study Program Fellow at UN Geneva and a Fellow at the Regional Academy on the United Nations.