Rogerio Haesbaert is a Brazilian human geographer focused on the concepts of territory and region. Born in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul, he completed his secondary education and his university education in Geography (undergraduate and bachelor's degree) in Santa Maria. He moved to Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s to study for a Masters in Geography at UFRJ, supervised by Bertha Becker and where he was a student and conducted research with geographer Milton Santos. His doctorate was in the Human Geography program at USP, under the supervision of Heinz Dieter Heidemann, with a one-year "sandwich scholarship" at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, with the French geographer Jacques Lévy. His postdoctoral research was carried out at the Open University, in England, under the supervision of the English geographer Doreen Massey, whose book For Space / Pelo Espaço was translated into Portuguese.

Since 1986, he has been a professor at the Institute of Geosciences of the Fluminense Federal University where he is director of the Center for Studies in Territory and Resistance in Globalization (NUREG).[1] He is on the faculty of the postgraduate course in Territorial and Environmental Policies at the University of Buenos Aires. He was visiting professor at the Open University (2003), the University of Toulouse-Le-Mirail (2009), the University of Buenos Aires (2010), the University of Paris VIII (2011), the University of Tucumán (2013) and the Center Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias of the UNAM in Cuernavaca, Mexico (2013).