Ten Wolde is completely at home at TenneT. The combination of technology and finance has been his area of interest for a longtime. During his Mechanical Engineering bachelor he did a minor in finance, after which he looked for a master's which would feed his passion for engineering and finance. He found Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics, the joint degree programme of three faculties: Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (3mE); Civil Engineering and Geosciences (CEG); and, Technology, Policy and Management (TPM). "I filled my free time with master's subjects on financial mathematics," he explains. He also studied at the ETH Zurich for six months that, jointly with the University of Zurich, offered a quantitative finance programme. "Among the subjects I took at the ETH Zurich were modules on energy economics which looked at the financial impact of energy. I learned the term 'Dutch Disease' there. It was called the Dutch Disease because in the 1960s, the value of the guilder rose and rose because of the gas fields that were discovered and the sale of part of them abroad. The effect was to worsen the competitive position of industry."
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