Johan Van Overtveldt

Johan Van Overtveldt is a Belgian economist and former journalist who served as Belgium's finance minister from 2014 to 2019. He now chairs the Budget Committee of the European Parliament. He has written several books on economics and monetary policy for Agate Publishing, beginning in 2007. His most recent Agate title is The Icarus Curse (2024), which examines the economic roots of pressures on Western democracies.