Amir was born in the Netherlands on June 17th 1981 as son to a father of mixed European and Indonesian descent, and, an Indonesian mother. He is interested in societal developments next to this work as data analyst/architect.

Educated as an arabist and tax lawyer Amir works in IT for about ten years now. In the role of analyst/architect he keeps an eye out for patterns. They occur in implementing an IT solution, but generally also in human behavior. He feels that successful behavioral changes are often not achieved by trying to remove unwanted behavior, but by replacing it with behavior of a different kind.

This is also why the way in which Beyond Walls seeks to draw attention for topics such as decolonization and cultural sensitivity, resonates with him. According to Amir, art is capable of reaching someone when they are open to it and is ideally always there for anyone to seek out. As such, he gladly contributes to a society that changes through expressions of art.