Professor Nigel Cantwell is a Geneva-based international consultant on child protection policies who has been working in the field of the human rights of children for over 40 years, and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Strathclyde.

The main focus of his current work is on safeguarding children’s rights in intercountry adoption and alternative care.

Professor Ann Skelton is former Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, a Professor of Law at the University of Pretoria, where she holds the UNESCO Chair in Education Law in Africa, and has an established track record as a children’s rights lawyer in South Africa for over 25 years.

Ann is a respected global figure in academia and across international children’s rights practice, in the areas of youth justice and alternative care in both research and legal practice. We are honoured to have Ann as Chair of our International Advisory Board.

Dr. Dimitar Karadzhov is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures.

Dimitar is a Lecturer in the School of Health & Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow. His areas of expertise include mental health recovery and health inequalities; global mental health; public health; homelessness; child welfare and human rights; qualitative and smartphone-assisted research methodologies; and learning technologies.

Dimitar previously worked with Inspiring Children’s Futures on the award winning COVID 4P Log smartphone app for children’s wellbeing project.

Kristen Hope is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Inspiring Children’s Futures.

Kristen has over 15 years of experience working with children to help them express their voices. Her areas of expertise include research methods; community-based mechanisms for child protection, diversion and alternatives to detention; and customary justice systems.