Remmelt de Weerd

Remmelt is communications officer at The Broker and keeps track of the general quality of publications and all written communications. He functions as the final editor for the website, is responsible for social media and also organizes general office operations.

Besides his work at The Broker, Remmelt also works as a research journalist for the Dutch journalism platform ‘De Correspondent’, focusing on investigative reporting.
Remmelt has a BSc in Human Geography from Utrecht University and an MSc in Political Geography from the University of Amsterdam. His general interest as a geographer lies with conflicting scales of power in a globalizing world. During his studies, he focused on the political geography of Central and Eastern Europe. He is also well informed on European politics and initiated an EU-fact checking website in 2013.