The Department of Agricultural Economics is a part of the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at Ghent University.

The department currently has about 70 staff members, including  8 staff members of the tenured academic staff, 10 staff members of the assisting academic staff,  several staff members of other scientific staff and 5 staff members of the administrative and technical staff.

The current Head of Department is Prof. dr. ir. Marijke D'Haese