My fiancée Liz and I live and work in Edinburgh and Munich. I worked for BMW in South Carolina and Munich, Germany for eight years and am now a strategy consultant in Munich. Liz is an art and architectural historian. I recently went on a four month, around-the-world sabbatical, during which I explored Chinese culture across Yunnan Province, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, deepened my meditation practice in India, and sailed halfway across the Atlantic on a tall ship with the Jubilee Sailing Trust.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet great new people wherever I go.

Interests

Food, conversation, travel, networks, geopolitics, the future.

• culture
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• traveling
• mountaineering
• economics
• entrepreneurship
• history
• food
• ice climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

Currently on my Kindle:
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Who Gets What and Why

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbed the Matterhorn

Teach, Learn, Share

Follow me on Twitter @WhitneyZim to see what I'm reading and thinking.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Conversation about how the world is changing and why it's worth being optimistic.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands, Vatican City State, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States