Diverse Talent: Meeting your future self

Diverse Talent: Meeting your future self

My dad promised me he would join me for each university introduction day. Together we set foot that day, for the first time at the Eindhoven University of Technology. There were 200 candidate students with their parents; and yes, we were the only Black family! “I want to offer young ethnic diverse talent a platform […]

The odds of wasted talent

Born in Suriname to a Curacaoan mother and an Indian-Surinamese father. I moved to the Netherlands at a young age, where I was raised by a single mom on a secretary salary. The odds were not in favor of an international banking career. “Too much talent is wasted if we cannot find the connection with […]