I’m Tim van der Weide, welcome to my website. Fascinated and worried about our lost connection with neighborhood and nature, my personal mission is to reconnect people and nature, one place at a time.

For the past 17 years, I have worked where capital is allocated: responsible investment strategy at one of Europe’s largest pension investors, chairing the PRI’s private equity committee, and training banks and investors across Europe and South-East Asia on sustainable finance standards. Today I work on environmental strategy across a pan-European portfolio of 1,600+ last-mile logistics assets on decarbonization, data and climate adaptation. In 2024 I completed a BSc in Landscape Architecture, to learn how to design for what a changing climate demands of actual places: heat, water, soil

I’m inspired by localists, mystics, and the well-rounded. In 2007 I lived six months in a monastery in the misty hills of Northern California. From 2010 I spent four years as a deputy city council member. In 2014 I co-founded Meesterknecht, a road cycling store in Amsterdam. I live in an old village that was swallowed up by Amsterdam with my wife and children.