Ute Rink is a researcher at the Chair of International Economic Policy at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen. Before joining the chair of International Economic Policy, she worked as a research associate at the Chair of Development Economics (Prof. Stephan Klasen) and the Research Centre Poverty Equity and Growth and at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen. She was a visiting researcher at the University of California Berkeley between August 2015 and June 2016. Ute Rink received her PhD in economics in 2014 from the University of Wuppertal.