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From early childhood all through my studies and career I have been interested in international relations, human rights and peaceful conflict resolution.
As a migration professional for 25 years, I have witnessed, heard, felt and seen the impact that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide have on victims, witnessess, their respective families and on entire societies.
As a professional I have been fortunate to render save haven to victims seeking justice, while on the other hand denying safe haven for perpetrators that were fleeing justice.
For over 10 years I have been spearheading new (inter)national and multidisciplinary approaches aimed at optimizing the identification of and the administrative responses to migrants responsible for core international crimes. Capacity building and furthering international criminal justice have become my passion ever since.
During the 2015/2106 refugee crisis I was working as deputy manager at the general director's office of the Dutch immigration service where we worked hard to find the right organisational responses and help to ease the social impact on our society.
