Marissa Daruwalla
Marissa Daruwalla was born in 1976 in Luxembourg to a Parsi (Persian Indian) father and a half Surinamese and Dutch mother. She studied and worked as a professional social worker in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, before moving to Thailand and returning to Luxembourg in 2006.
Besides her general work experience since 1999 in many different fields (addiction, psychiatry and after care, child day care, child protection services, work coach, etc.), her specialization in gender violence prevention (prostitution, sexual exploitation of women and children, trafficking in human beings for sexual purposes, prevention work in sexual delinquency, Dutch national research team on sexual at risk behaviour, domestic violence, etc.) has allowed her to acquire a certain expertise within this particular domain.