Lore Vandewalle is a Professor (hoogleraar) of Economics at the KU Leuven and a professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute (20%). Since September 2020, she has been affiliated with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).

Her research mainly focuses on financial inclusion and micro-enterprise development in India, Bangladesh, and Uganda. She has also been working on political reservations and the provision of public goods in India.