Grete Gansauer is an economic geographer and interdisciplinary public policy researcher focused on regional development, place-based policy, and the Foundational Economy in peripheral regions and ‘left behind’ places. Focusing on rural contexts and natural resource production, her research examines sustainability of essential services and infrastructures as both drivers and indicators of spatial inequality, and evaluates how national- and regional-scale place-based policies affect regional development in peripheral places. She has held fellowships and visiting appointments with the US Department of Agriculture, National Academies of Sciences in Washington DC, and University of Cambridge. Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Communities in the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming, and she co-organizes EdgeNet, the RSA research network on peripheries and why they matter.