Petra Hellegers is professor and chair of the Water Resources Management group. She has extensive experience in the economic analysis of water (allocation) issues and in studying the role of economic instruments in irrigation water management, nationally and internationally (among others in Egypt, India, Morocco, Mozambique, Ukraine and Yemen).

She leads a group of approximately 20 staff members and more than 30 PhD candidates working in the field of agricultural water management, water governance and contested knowledges.