Charline Depoorter is a Doctoral Researcher at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and at the Division of Bioeconomics, University of Leuven (Belgium). Her doctoral research investigates the institutional design and effectiveness of voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) as governance tools for sustainable trade. Her research interests include governance for sustainable development and (non-state) governance of global trade. She studied at the University of Leuven, the University of Edinburgh, and ICHEC Brussels Management School.