Lut Mergaert

Lut Mergaert is Research Director and Senior Consultant at Yellow Window (Antwerp, Belgium). She holds a PhD in Management Sciences. Gender mainstreaming in research, and the adoption and implementation of gender equality policies more broadly, are her main research interests. She has led numerous policy support studies on gender equality, sets up and coordinates gender training programmes and has served as an expert for the European Commission, the European Institute for Gender Equality, European Parliament, Council of Europe, and UN Women, among others.  She has been involved in several Horizon 2020 projects focusing on gender equality: as scientific coordinator in Gender Equality Academy and currently in GenderSAFE, and as gender expert in the projects GEECCO, SUPERA, GEARING-Roles, Gender-SMART, AGRIGEP, CASPER and UniSAFE. She has authored many articles and book chapters on issues related to gender mainstreaming, gender-based violence and gender equality policies in the EU.