Twie Giok Tjoa

Twie Giok Tjoa (Twie Tjoa, born December 3, 1943) is a Dutch organizational sociologist and feminist, specialising in diversity and inclusion at work and in society as a whole. Born and raised in a Peranakan Chinese family in Surabaya, Indonesia, she fled with her parents to Suriname in 1962 to escape the persecution of Chinese people in Indonesia. She studied organizational sociology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and, back in Suriname, became the first female director at the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Youth Affairs.

After again moving to the Netherlands in 1996, Tjoa worked in many organizations to improve the position of women, especially black, migrant and refugee women (Dutch: zwarte, migranten- en vluchtelingenvrouwen, ZMV), and the emancipation of the bicultural LGBTQ+ community. She received several Dutch awards for her work, and the Amsterdam municipal Andreaspenning, and was appointed a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau in 2019. Tjoa is considered to be an icon of the Dutch ZMV movement.

Publications Tjoa's publications include:

in English

in Dutch Seminar proceedings Paramaribo 1994.

127 pages.

Biography 84 pages.