Joost van der Veer

Joost van der Veer is the long-tenured Managing Partner at DOB Equity — the Amsterdam-headquartered Dutch family office-backed mid-market private equity and impact investment platform founded by the Dutch OAD (DOB) Foundation, with a 20-year African track record, dedicated Lagos and Nairobi regional offices, and approximately €450M+ in cumulative AUM across DOB Fund I (€80M, 2013), DOB Fund II (€150M, 2017), DOB Fund III (€220M, 2022 vintage, with explicit 40% Nigeria/Ghana corridor mandate). A Wageningen University Agricultural Economics MSc, LBS Executive MBA Senior Executive Programme alumnus, 10-year FMO Agribusiness Group veteran and 6-year Rabobank Emerging Markets Food & Agri Finance analyst, van der Veer founded the DOB Equity dedicated African PE platform in 2012.