Willem Middelkoop

Willem Middelkoop (Geneva, August 21, 1962) is an entrepreneur and investor, who, earlier in his career, became well-known as a photojournalist, columnist and market commentator on TV. In 2008, he founded AmsterdamGold and the Commodity Discovery Fund. The former he sold to Value8 in 2011, after which he and two co-investors became founding shareholders of the successful business accelerator Startup Bootcamp Amsterdam. Today, as founder and director, Middelkoop works full time for the Commodity Discovery Fund and travels the world as a speaker and commentator on monetary and geopolitical issues. He has written a series of successful books on these topics. Middelkoop is a member of the Advisory Council of the London-based monetary think-tank OMFIF.