Jacques, Baron Brotchi (French pronunciation: [ʒak bʁɔtʃi]; born 1942) is a Belgian professor of neurosurgery and a politician from the MR.
His chief interest was neurosurgery, which led him to work (already as a student) at the Laboratory for Neuroanatomy and at the Neurosurgical Clinic of the university.
[4] In 1982, he became a professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and created the Department of Neurosurgery of the Erasme Hospital.
In 2005, he joined the scientific committee of the Baillet Latour Prize and became chairman of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.
[8] In 2011, he resigned from the board of Université Libre de Bruxelles in protest against the university's failure to address a series of antisemitic incidents on campus.