I’m Tim van der Weide. I am fascinated and worried about our lost connection with neighborhood and nature: the quiet ties between people and the places they live. My personal mission is to reconnect people and nature, one place at a time.
For the past 17 years, I have followed capital deployment into the physical world. I shaped responsible investment at one of Europe’s largest pension investors, chaired the PRI’s private equity committee, and trained banks and investors from Europe to South-East Asia in what sustainable finance asks from them. Today I work on environmental strategy across a pan-European portfolio of 1,600+ last-mile logistics sites 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 places: heat, water and soil stress.
My teachers have been localists, mystics, people who stay. In 2007 I lived six months in a monastery in the misty hills of Northern California. From 2010 I served four years as a deputy city council member. In 2014 I co-founded Meesterknecht, a road cycling store in Amsterdam. I live on the outskirts of Amsterdam with my wife and two children.
