Dirk Broeders is a special Professor of Pension Finance and Regulation at the School of Business and Economics of Maastricht University. He is also a Senior Risk Manager at the Financial Markets Division at De Nederlandsche Bank. He is a former Executive Member of the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors and served as a Fellow at the Financial Stability Institute of the Bank for International Settlements. He has published widely on finance and obtained his Ph.D. from Tilburg University.