General manager of the Rotterdam (NL) based NGO RADAR, a regional organisation for the combat of all forms of discrimination prohibited in the first article of the Dutch Constitution. One of the founders the Dutch Federation of anti-discrimination bureaux and is still active in the board of this and other national anti-discrimination organisations. Board member of the Rotterdam Charter Foundation which is working on the promotion and distribution of the Charter "policing for a multi-ethnic society" at the European level.

Publications include: Infrastructures to counter racism and racial discrimination in the Netherlands, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, The Netherlands, (2000), Getting grasp of racism - making anti-discrimination law work, paper for expert-meeting 'Strategies for implementaing integration policies', 1999, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, February 2000.