Victor Broers (LLM) is a public thinker and writer. He studied law at the University of Amsterdam and furthered his knowledge of economic theory at the London School of Economics. During the period following the Lehman Brothers’ collapse he worked as an advisor for the Dutch Ministry of Finance on financial markets reform issues. Today Broers advises top executives in both the private and the public sector across Europe on macro-trends and European economic and political affairs. Photograph courtesy of Geert Snoeijer