Tim Trachet (born 1958) is a Belgian writer, publicist, journalist and skeptic. He studied mathematics, astronomy and philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and is a reporter at the VRT, where he produces history television documentaries. Since 2013, Trachet is vice-chairman (previously as treasurer) in the board of directors of the European Council of Skeptical Organisations (ECSO), of which he was one of the founders in 1994. In the frame of the 100th anniversary of the First World War in 2014, Trachet wrote about a series of myths that still surround 'The Great War'.