"And that's a prime example of it." Yet 15, always and forever, will be Kremer's favorite hole. In a sense, it's part of his family. His grandfather, Walt Gahm, had his ashes spread on the hole.

Michael Kremer is not an economist who speaks in theory. He answers questions directly and always with real world examples. But it wasn’t always this way. Having started out as a macroeconomist ...

The Art Newspaper: What do you and your family collect, and why? Joël Kremer: My parents collect Dutch and Flemish Old Masters. My father remembers his first encounter, as a ten-year-old boy ...

Yet Kremer is a Brussels insider, having served for more than two decades as deputy secretary-general of the EPP, the EU's centre-right party family. As such, he was involved in coordinating EU ...