OUR TEAM
Femke Schootstra
Board 2024 - 2025
I'm Femke, student Global Political Economy at Radboud University. With Rethinking Economics I want to empower students to speak up about their ideas and values in Economics, and to be critical young pioneers in new ways of thinking. My personal interests are the macro-economic puzzles of degrowth, and the (hidden) political and colonial nature of economics. I want to contribute to creating a place for these topics in university education.
SENIOR BOARD
Benjamin Heaton
Board 2024-2025
I’m Ben! I’m a philosophy student at Erasmus University Rotterdam, but I also have a degree in Economics, three semesters of Engineering, and years of varied experience working in the actual economy. I believe economics has a lot that it can teach us, but it has abandoned its roots and lost its humility. With Rethinking Economics, I hope to help revitalize the discipline such that it is capable of tackling the pressing issues for which it is depended upon.
Vera Breugem
Board 2024 - 2025
My name is Vera, I am a Sociology student at the University of Amsterdam, and completed MSc Organising Social Impact at Utrecht University. During this master’s I got interested in cooperatives, community/local economies, and the ideologies behind current economic curricula. With Rethinking Economics, I hope to contribute to build a vibrant student network through which we can broaden our and others' perspectives on economics.
SENIOR BOARD
Prof.dr. Irene van Staveren
Vice-chair
Irene is professor of Pluralist Development Economics at the Institute for Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Check out her pluralist textbook: Economics after the Crisis!
Rens van Tilburg
Boardmember
Rens is the director of the Sustainable Finance Lab of Utrecht university. Previously, he was an economic advisor in the European Parliament and the Dutch Lower House.
Dr. Robert Went
Boardmember
Robert is senior economist at the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). He's a Twitter Jedi master, check it out!