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Appendix C

Biographical Sketches of
Workshop Speakers

Anne Berens, M.Sc., M.A., is a Richmond Fellow at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University and researcher at the Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience at Children’s Hospital Boston. Her research focuses on the measurement and neurodevelopmental effects of early childhood psychosocial adversity in low-income countries. She has particular interest in the effects of early care environments on developmental outcomes, and in the needs of children lacking access to safe family settings.

Liri Berisha was graduated by the Faculty of Medicine, University of Tirana, and has worked as a pediatrician for 30 years. As president of the Albanian Children’s Foundation and in support of its mission she is focused on creating opportunities for the education of marginalized children, improving care and development in early childhood, protecting the rights of children, the healthy growing of children with special physical and social needs, and improving the lives of children suffering from thalassemia, contributing to sustainable solutions to their problems. Mrs. Berisha has made possible the increasing public and professional awareness of autism in Albania. She has introduced programs and international standardized instruments for screening, diagnosing, providing quality treatment services, and increasing professional capacities for children with autism spectrum disorder, and she has developed academic editions to strengthen inclusive programs and multiple efforts at the international level coordinating and establishing a sustainable national model

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Reaching and Investing in Children at the Margins: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Open Society Foundations; and the International Step by Step Association (ISSA). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23491.
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to provide professional services. Her engagement in many national and international activities, reducing infant mortality in the country, and initiating the establishment of several international networks for improving the lives of children is considered by worldwide dignitaries as a global role model, bestowing her with such prestigious awards as the Order of Mother Teresa by the President of the Republic of Albania, the Second Annual Bob and Suzanne Wright Global Autism Achievement Award, and Honorary President and Local Ambassador of UNICEF.

Zulfiqar Bhutta, MBBS, FRCPCH, FAAP, Ph.D., is the Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Child Health at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto, the codirector of the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health, and Founding Director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, at the Aga Khan University, unique joint appointments. He also holds adjunct professorships at the Schools of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), Tufts University (Boston), the University of Alberta, and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He is a designated Distinguished National Professor of the Government of Pakistan and was the founding chairman of the National Research Ethics Committee of the Government of Pakistan from 2002–2014. Dr. Bhutta’s research interests include newborn and child survival, maternal and child undernutrition, and micronutrient deficiencies. Dr. Bhutta is one of the seven-member Independent Expert Review Group (iERG) established by the United Nations Secretary General in September 2011 for monitoring global progress in maternal and child health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). He represents the global academic and research organizations on the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI) Board, is the cochair of the Maternal and Child Health oversight committee of World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (WHO EMRO) as well as the Global Countdown for 2015 Steering Group. He has served as a member of the Global Advisory Committee for Health Research for the WHO, the Board of Child & Health and Nutrition Initiative of the Global Forum for Health Research, and was a founding board member of the Global Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH). He serves on several international editorial boards. Dr. Bhutta is currently a member of the WHO Strategic Advisory Committee for Vaccines (SAGE), the Expert Advisory Group for Vaccine Research, the Advisory Committee for Health Research of WHO EMRO, and a cochair of its apex Regional Committee for Maternal and Child Health. He has won several awards, including the Aga Khan University Awards for Research (2005) Distinguished Faculty (2012), and the WHO Ihsan Dogramaci Family Health Award (2014). Professor Bhutta received

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Reaching and Investing in Children at the Margins: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Open Society Foundations; and the International Step by Step Association (ISSA). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23491.
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his Ph.D. from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pediatrics & Child Health, American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Pakistan Academy of Sciences.

Ivelina Borisova, Ph.D., Director for Impact and Innovations, Early Childhood Development at Save the Children, brings extensive expertise in international early childhood programs and policy. Dr. Borisova obtained her doctoral degree in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University and prior to joining Save the Children, worked as an international consultant with numerous development agencies, including World Education and the International Rescue Committee. Dr. Borisova works on developing, implementing, and evaluating early childhood programs and policies around the world and provides strategic and technical guidance to a diverse portfolio of early childhood development initiatives across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern/Central Europe, spanning the full continuum of early childhood (pregnancy to 8 years). At Save the Children, she has strengthened the focus and application of evidence-based programming and promoted a focus on equity and quality in early childhood services. Most recently, Dr. Borisova led the development and validation of the International Development and Early Learning Assessment (IDELA), which is quickly gaining momentum as a global instrument on early learning. Dr. Borisova has published numerous articles and reports, and has presented extensively at conferences, meetings, and workshops (academic and nonacademic) globally.

Kevin Browne, B.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc., Ph.D., M.Ed., C.Psychol., FSB, is Director of the Centre for Forensic and Family Psychology and holds the Chair of Forensic Psychology and Child Health at the University of Nottingham Medical School. He is Consultant to the European Commission, UNICEF, and the World Health Organization on children in adversity and children in conflict with the law, following 12 years as an Executive Councilor of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. He has worked in more than 50 countries to improve the care and protection of children. With the aid of a European Union Daphne grant, he co-developed a model for deinstitutionalizing and transforming children’s services in Europe, which has been used by UNICEF (Better Care Network), Hope & Homes, and Lumos. In 2009, his work on risk of harm to young children was influential in bringing about United Nations guidelines that no child less than 3 should be placed in residential care without a parent. In 2013, with Open Society Foundations support, he again mapped the number of children in care across Europe and Central Asia together with UNICEF to compare changes from 2003.

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Maia Buchukuri, M.D., is currently Head of the Social Programs Division in the Ministry of Labor, Health, and Social Affairs, Social Service Agency in Georgia. Since its founding, Dr. Buchukuri has been the coordinator of the governmental program of Early Intervention, and is a member of the Early Intervention Coalition. Dr. Buchukuri manages other state social programs, including small group homes, child rehabilitation, day care centers, community organizations, and provision of supporting equipment (such as wheelchairs and prosthetic-orthopedic equipment, and hearing devices and cochlear implants).

Ariel Como, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Tirana Medical University, is currently clinical Head of Psychiatry Division, Department of Neuroscience, Tirana University Hospital Center “Mother Tereza.” Since November 2014 he has been Deputy Dean for Continuing Medical Education at the Faculty of Medicine, Tirana Medical University; a member of the Directors’ Council of postgraduate schools in Neurosciences (including General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry); a member of the National Steering Committee on Reforming the Mental Health Sector, and a member of working group on developing intersectorial strategy on Child and Adolescent Mental Health. During 2008–2014 he served as General Deputy Director of the University Hospital Center. Since 2010 he has been National Coordinator at the South East European Autism Network, and Scientific Director of the Tirana Regional Center on Autism. Dr. Como received his M.D. in 1994 and postgraduate residency in Psychiatry in 1999 at the Tirana Faculty of Medicine; specialization course in Child Neuropsychiatry at the University of Pavia, Italy; and his doctoral degree on trans-generational transmission of trauma at the Tirana University. He served as Consultant for the Albanian Rehabilitation Center on Trauma and Torture, International Organization of Migration, and other nongovernmental actors or programs in different periods. From 2011 to 2016 he has been a postdoc fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, on the research training socio-economics of mental health delivery in southeastern Europe at the Nicholas C. Petris Center.

Radosveta Dimitrova, Ph.D., received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology (Trieste University, Italy; awarded 2009 Best Doctoral Thesis, Italian Psychological Association) and Ph.D. in Cross-Cultural Psychology (Tilburg University, the Netherlands, received 2012 Dissertation Award of the Society for Research in Child Development). She worked at the Brent Centre for Young People, London (United Kingdom) and Brown University (United States) and has ongoing collaborations in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States. Her publication record includes 55 peer-reviewed scholarly publications and more than 90 presentations and talks at inter-

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Reaching and Investing in Children at the Margins: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Open Society Foundations; and the International Step by Step Association (ISSA). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23491.
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national conferences. Her research interests include migration, positive youth development, marginalized and disadvantaged children and youth, and ethnic minority communities (Roma). She is an Associate Editor of the American Psychological Association’s International Psychology Bulletin, an ad hoc reviewer of 23 scholarly journals in psychological and related fields, and editor of a book on immigrant families around the globe. She is the past president of the Early Researchers Union of the European Association of Developmental Psychology and current representative of the Early Career Council at the Society for Research in Child Development, the Society for the Study of Human Development, European Association for Research on Adolescence, the Society for Research on Adolescence’s Study Group Committee, Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood Early Career Committee, and Advisory Board of the Global Network for Human Development.

Lidija Dojcinovska, M.A., has a bachelor’s degree in special education and rehabilitation and a master’s degree in social policy with focus on inclusive education. Since 2000, she has been active in the disability sector in international and national organizations, working on various development projects. Ms. Dojcinovska is co-founder and president of the association Open the Windows, which promotes and provides assistive technology for people with disabilities in Macedonia. Also, she is coauthor of several publications in the field of assistive technology. From 2010 to 2015 she was actively involved in promoting inclusion of children with disabilities, working as a special educator in the mainstream schools in Skopje. As of May 2015, Dr. Dojcinovska is a state advisor in the Prime Minister’s office of the Republic of Macedonia.

Liana Ghent joined the International Step by Step Association (ISSA) as Executive Director in September 2006. She is responsible for the day-today management and strategic development of the association, which brings together more than 65 organizations from close to 40 countries, primarily from Europe and Central Asia. ISSA’s members are united around the shared mission to ensure equal access to quality care and education for all young children from birth to 10 years old. This mission is implemented through three main pillars of action: equal access for all children, promoting high-quality and professionalism in early years services, and empowering parents and communities to be part of children’s development and learning. Ms. Ghent has more than 20 years of international experience in developing and leading programs in the nonprofit sector, primarily in the area of higher education and early childhood development. Her leadership experience includes serving as Regional Director and later as President of the Civic Education Project, a nonprofit organization engaged

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in higher education initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, during times of intense reforms after the fall of communism. Before joining ISSA, she also worked with the Higher Education Support Program of the Open Society Foundations. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development.

David Greger, Ph.D., is director of the Institute for Research and Development of Education at Faculty of Education, Charles University, in Prague. He works mainly in the field of comparative education, educational policy, sociology of education, and quantitative methodology. He teaches quantitative research methods and sociology of education for doctoral students and classes on equity in education, educational policy, and quantitative research methods for master’s students. His recent work is focused on issues of equity and quality in education, positive discrimination measures for at-risk students, and other policy interventions that may reduce the achievement gaps. Dr. Greger has been involved in many national and international projects and served as an advisor for the European Commission, OECD, Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, and for several nongovernmental organizations. He currently leads a large longitudinal study in the Czech Republic (CLoSE [Czech Longitudinal Study in Education]) financed by the National Science Foundation of the Czech Republic.

Suna Hanoz, M.A., is currently working as the International Relations Senior Specialist at Mother Child Education Foundation (ACEV). She manages the transfer and implementation of ACEV’s educational programs through partnerships with local organizations in numerous countries in Europe, the Middle East, and Central America. Her work focuses on both designing and supervising early intervention projects for children and families implemented in the field. She has authored the Preschool Education Program and the Mother Support Program, along with her colleagues at ACEV. Before ACEV, she taught children at the early childhood level and took part in research studies. Ms. Hanoz is a Fulbright Scholar, received her M.A. degree in Early Childhood Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and holds a B.A. degree in Early Childhood Education and Psychological Guidance and Counselling from Bogazici University.

Hollie Hix-Small, Ph.D., is an assistant professor and program coordinator for the Early Intervention, Early Childhood Special Education graduate program at Portland State University. Dr. Hix-Small trains master’s-level licensure students through a Web-based platform, conducts research, and contributes to the field through international trainings and technical

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support. Dr. Hix-Small was formerly with Open Society Foundations in London, England, where she managed the organization’s early childhood intervention portfolio in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia from 2011 to 2014. During her tenure with Open Society Foundations, she facilitated the development of early childhood intervention system building and service provision in several countries. Dr. Hix-Small has worked as an academic in Canada and the United States, served as a home visitor and early childhood special education classroom teacher, worked as an institutional care provider for children ages 0–6, and has been employed as a research analyst on numerous federally funded grants. Dr. Hix-Small’s expertise lies in supporting very young children, birth to age 5 and their families, experiencing developmental or social emotional difficulties and research and program evaluation. In 2007 she received her Ph.D. in Early Intervention, Special Education from the University of Oregon. Dr. Hix-Small has trained and consulted on early childhood development and intervention in more than 15 countries.

Arthur Ivatts, M.A., worked initially as a teacher and youth leader. Following a higher degree in anthropology, which focused on the Gypsies/Roma in England, he became involved with the early efforts to secure education for Roma/Gypsy and traveler children. After some years working within the voluntary nongovernmental organization sector concerned with Gypsies/Roma and travelers, he joined Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Schools (HMI) in England in 1975 and soon became the HMI with national responsible for the education of Gypsy/Roma and traveler children. He held this post until 2003 when he decided to do consultancy work for government departments and intergovernmental organizations. In 2004, he was awarded an Order of the British Empire by the Queen for his services to education. Mr. Ivatts has been involved in Roma/Gypsy related projects in Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Romania, Slovakia, and Sweden. In 2003–2004 he worked with a small research team on a report for the European Commission in relation to Roma and European Union enlargement, The Situation of Roma in an Enlarged European Union (EU, November 2004).

Sarah Klaus, M.A., Director of the Open Society Foundations (OSF) Early Childhood Program (ECP), leads a team of specialists who develop and implement the Foundations’ global early childhood portfolio. The program improves services and policies that affect young children, particularly minority and marginalized groups, and builds capacity of early childhood professionals. Since 2006, Ms. Klaus has expanded OSF’s ECP’s original focus in Central Eastern Europe and Eurasia to include Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. In 1994, Ms. Klaus helped

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launch Step by Step, the Foundations’ flagship early childhood program, and in 1999, the International Step by Step Association, a network established to support early childhood professionals in Central Eastern Europe and Eurasia. She served as the association’s executive director from its inception to 2006. Ms. Klaus holds an M.A. in developmental psychology from Columbia University Teachers College and a B.A. in Russian Studies from Brown University. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in education at the Institute of Education in London.

Vibha Krishnamurthy, M.D., has trained in developmental pediatrics at Children’s Hospital, Boston. She founded Ummeed Child Development Center in 2001, a not-for-profit center for children with disability in Mumbai, India. She has 15 years of experience in India as a developmental pediatrician, and has led the team at Ummeed in its delivery of direct services, training, advocacy, and research in the field of child development and disability. She serves on expert committees related to early childhood development and disability for the World Health Organization and government of India. Dr. Krishnamurthy has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics since 2011. She is currently co-investigator on a project to develop an international tool for monitoring child development, funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Vesna Kutlesic, Ph.D., is the Director of the Office of Global Health at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Dr. Kutlesic is also an adjunct faculty member at the Center for Global Health in the School of Public Health at George Washington University. She has served on the Executive Board of the Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice within the American Psychological Association. Previously, Dr. Kutlesic was hired as a Special Assistant to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director after completing a mid-career, health science policy fellowship through the American Association for the Advancement of the Sciences. While a Special Assistant in the NIH Director’s Office for 4 years, she earned the NIH Director’s Award in 2008 for her work on the Revitalizing Peer Review initiative, and worked on research, training, and policy initiatives related to biomedical research, global health, child health, behavioral/social science issues, and interdisciplinary research, among others. Prior to her work at NIH, she was a Fulbright Visiting Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Belgrade in Serbia, while based in the Psychiatry Department at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She has also worked as a senior international consultant for UNICEF on developing children’s health and behavioral services in Eastern Europe.

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Joan Lombardi, Ph.D., is an international expert on child development and social policy. She currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Buffett Early Childhood Fund on national initiatives and to the Bernard van Leer Foundation on global child development strategies. She also directs Early Opportunities, LLC, focusing on innovation, policy, and philanthropy. Over the past 40 years, Dr. Lombardi has made significant contributions in the areas of child and family policy as an innovative leader and policy advisor to national and international organizations and foundations and as a public servant. She served in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as the first Deputy Assistant Secretary for Early Childhood Development (2009–2011) in the Obama administration, and as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and External Affairs in the Administration for Children and Families, and the first Commissioner of the Child Care Bureau among other positions (1993–1998) during the Clinton administration. Outside of public service, she served as the founding chair of the Birth to Five Policy Alliance (now the Alliance for Early Success) and as the founder of Global Leaders for Young Children. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Save the Children and the Board of Directors for the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning.

Irina Malanciuc, Ph.D., has been working as Country Director of Lumos Moldova since 2009, ensuring and coordinating the implementation of Lumos’ program in regard to deinstitutionalization, inclusive education, prevention of under-5 mortality, and quality assurance of social services. Dr. Malanciuc started her activity as a pediatrician, working with children at the community level, including children from vulnerable families. She held different positions within the district level, the Institute of Mother and Child Health Care, the Ministry of Health, and UNICEF Moldova. She was involved in national and international projects regarding child protection and the residential child care system, and she coordinated the evaluations of all residential institutions from Moldova (during 1998–1999, 2006–2007, and 2013). The results of these evaluations served as a basis for the reform of the residential child care system. Dr. Malanciuc was also involved, as an UNICEF international expert, in the evaluation of the residential child care system of several post-Soviet countries, and supported the authorities to develop plans for reforming the child care system. Lumos cooperates with the Moldovan government to change the child protection system and ensure the child’s right to family, for the benefit of all marginalized children.

Ann Masten, Ph.D., LP, is Regents Professor, Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Development and Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. She

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completed her doctoral training at the University of Minnesota in clinical psychology and her internship at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1986, she joined the faculty in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota, serving as chair of the department from 1999 to 2005. Dr. Masten’s research focuses on understanding processes that promote competence and prevent problems in human development, with a focus on adaptive processes and pathways, developmental tasks and cascades, and resilience in the context of high cumulative risk, adversity, and trauma. She directs the Project Competence studies of risk and resilience, including studies of normative populations and high-risk young people exposed to war, natural disasters, poverty, homelessness, and migration. The ultimate objective of her research is to inform sciences, practices, and policies that aim to promote positive development and a better future for children and families whose lives are threatened by adversity. Dr. Masten currently serves on the Board on Children, Youth, and Families (BCYF) and the U.S. National Committee of Psychology for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She formerly served on the BCYF Committee on the Impact of Mobility and Change on the Lives of Young Children, Schools, and Neighborhoods and planning committee on Investing in Young Children Globally. She also has served as President of the Society for Research in Child Development and President of Division 7 (Developmental) of the American Psychological Association (APA). She is a 2014 recipient of the Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contributions to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society from APA. Dr. Masten has published and presented extensively on the themes of risk and resilience in human development. Her book, Ordinary Magic: Resilience in Children, was published by Guilford Press, and she is teaching a free MOOC (mass open online course) on the same theme beginning in September 2014 on Coursera.

Margareta (Magda) Matache, Ph.D., is a Roma rights activist from Romania. In 2012, she was awarded a Hauser Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. For more than a decade, Dr. Matache has been a powerful voice of the Roma in various grassroots, national, and international contexts. Her views on the Roma plight have been captured and conveyed throughout the world by credible sources, such as The New York Times, The Time, Financial Time, BBC, EuroNews, Le Monde, and Le Figaro, as well as by national media in Romania. From 2005 to 2012, Dr. Matache was the Executive Director of Romani CRISS, a leading Roma nongovernmental organization that defends and promotes the rights of Roma. Their advocacy and litigation efforts have also contributed to the approval of the domestic School Desegregation Bill. She completed her doctoral research work in early

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childhood development of Romani children at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bucharest, and holds a master’s degree in European Social Policies. Her publications and research have ranged over the rights and agency of Romani children and adolescents, early childhood development, Romani women, anti-Roma violence, and segregation in education.

Eskinder Negash is a recognized senior executive leader and brings more than 35 years of proven not-for-profit management experience working on behalf of refugees and immigrants, and managing nonprofit social service agencies. Mr. Negash served as Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), the largest government-funded refugee resettlement organization in the world, within the Administration of Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 2009 to 2015. With a budget of more than $1.5 billion, the Office of Refugee Resettlement plays a critical role in providing essential services to a wide range of vulnerable people. Under his leadership, ORR has served more than 400,000 refugees; 150,000 asylees; 125,000 Cuban and Haitian entrants; nearly 21,000 Iraqi and Afghan Special Immigrant Visa holders; 3,200 victims of trafficking; and 116,000 unaccompanied children. Prior to his appointment by the Obama administration, he served as the vice president and chief operating officer of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), a nongovernmental, not-for-profit international organization. Before joining USCRI, Mr. Negash served as vice president and chief administrative officer of the International Institute of Los Angeles for 15 years. In 2009, Mr. Negash received an Outstanding American by Choice award from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which recognizes naturalized U.S. citizens who have made significant contributions to both their community and their adopted country. In 2010, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) honored Mr. Negash as 1 of 10 distinguished men and women whose stories of hope and transformation epitomize the refugee journey.

Alison Parker, J.D., director of Human Rights Watch’s (HRW’s) U.S. Program, guides HRW’s work on national security, immigration, and criminal justice in the United States. From 2001 to 2002, she served as a Sandler fellow and the organization’s director of refugee policy, in both positions documenting and advocating against violations of the rights of refugees around the world. Ms. Parker has conducted human rights investigations in refugee settings in Africa and Central Asia, as well as in prisons, jails, immigration detention centers, and immigrant communities throughout the United States. She has conducted extensive advocacy before the governments of the United States and Europe; has testified before state legislatures and the U.S. Congress; and is a frequent voice in

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the media. Ms. Parker has edited and authored numerous HRW reports, including a landmark examination of the sentencing of children to life without the possibility of parole, which was subsequently cited in two U.S. Supreme Court decisions limiting the practice. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and Oxford University, Ms. Parker holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a J.D. from Columbia University Law School. Prior to joining HRW, she worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Jesuit Refugee Service, and engaged in sovereign litigation as an attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton in New York.

Jan Peeters, Ph.D., was senior researcher in two research projects commissioned by the European Commission DG E&C (Competences Requirements in Early Childhood Education and Care [ECEC], 2011, and The Role of ECEC in Preventing Early School Leaving, 2014) and he was the promoter of a systematic review for Eurofound on ECEC: Working Conditions, Training and Quality of Services, a Systematic Review (2015). He worked within the IMPRES/UNICEF project that aimed to increase the accessibility of preschool in Serbia. Dr. Peeters and two colleagues from VBJK Innovation in the Early Years, together with the Migration Policy Institute (United States), are responsible for the organization of the Transatlantic Forum on Inclusive Early Years (TFIEY), seven high-level meetings for policy makers and researchers on the importance of quality ECEC for vulnerable groups (2013–2016). He is a member of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) International Advisory Group on the Survey of Teachers in Pre-Primary Education (STEPP). He is an elected board member of the International Step by Step Association and the co-founder of the Diversity in Early Childhood Education and Training (DECET) network on working around diversity and inclusion in ECEC.

Ruth Perou, Ph.D., is the Child Development Studies Team Leader at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD). Dr. Perou is working on implementing CDC’s public health agendas on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Tourette’s syndrome and related comorbidities. She is the Project Director of Legacy for Children, CDC’s national program to promote optimal child development outcomes in low-income families. Additionally, she is working on the CDC initiative on developmental health, an effort to promote child health and well-being by recognizing the importance of early identification and early intervention for children with or at-risk for developmental delays, developmental disabilities, and childhood disorders. Dr. Perou received her Ph.D.

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in Applied Developmental Psychology from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.

Abbie Raikes, Ph.D., is a developmental psychologist addressing global measurement in early childhood as the technical lead for the Measuring Early Learning Quality and Outcomes project based at UNICEF. Prior to joining UNICEF, Dr. Raikes was a program specialist at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Headquarters in Paris. She also spent several years working on early learning, strategy development, and measurement for The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Raikes’s background also includes training in public health and experience working in the United States Senate on policy.

Bettina Schwethelm, Ph.D., is a Senior Consultant on Young Child Health and Wellbeing at the UNICEF Regional Office for Central, Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS). She focuses on strengthening the linkages between the areas of health, early child development, and child protection. In her assignment, she supports UNICEF Country Offices and partners on the reform of home visiting services to improve parenting capacities during the critical early years. She supports UNICEF activities for early identification and intervention for children with or at risk of developmental difficulties. She was recently involved in a mapping of services for young children with disabilities or developmental difficulties in CEE/CIS. With a doctorate in developmental psychology and master’s degree in International Public Health, she has managed maternal and child health communicable and noncommunicable disease programs in the nongovernmental organization sector for more than 20 years. She has conducted research and published on augmentative communication for nonverbal children and learning disabilities. She is the co-author of a training package for health workers on child-friendly hospital procedures based on child rights, health, and development. She has also co-written two training modules for home visitors on young children with developmental difficulties.

Andy Shih, Ph.D., is Senior Vice President of Scientific Affairs at Autism Speaks. He works closely with members of Autism Speaks’ Board, Scientific Advisory Committee, senior staff, and volunteer leadership to develop and implement the organization’s research program. He oversees the etiology portfolio, which includes genetics, environmental sciences, and epidemiology, as well as the Innovative Technology for Autism program, which supports the research and development of novel assistive technologies. Dr. Shih also leads Autism Speaks’ international scientific

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development efforts, including the Global Autism Public Health Initiative, an international advocacy effort currently active in more than 45 countries around the world that integrates awareness, research, and service development. His team serves as facilitators and technical advisors to community stakeholders, including government ministries, professional societies, and advocacy organizations. Dr. Shih joined the National Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR) in 2002, an autism science organization that merged with Autism Speaks in 2006. Prior to joining NAAR, he served as an industry consultant and was a member of the faculty at Yeshiva University and New York University Medical Center. Dr. Shih’s research background includes published studies in gene identification and characterization, virus–cell interaction, and cell-cycle regulation. He earned his Ph.D. in cellular and molecular biology from New York University Medical Center.

Katerina Slesingerova has been the Director of the Department for the Protection of Children’s Rights since June 2015. She graduated from the Law Faculty of Charles University and worked at the Institute for Criminology and Social Prevention, where she participated in the research of juvenile delinquency and the possibilities of its prevention, and researched domestic violence and its impact on children. She has been working more than 15 years in the field of foster care and children living out of their families. She has experience with supporting foster families, counseling, programs for children in institutional care, and research of the needs of young people leaving institutional care. She is actively seeking to change the system of care for vulnerable children in the Czech Republic. She participated in the preparation of the nongovernmental organization report on the United Nations Children’s Rights Convention, and presented it at the Committee on the Rights of the Child meeting in 2011. In 2012–2014, she worked at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

Jonathan Todres, J.D., is Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law. His research focuses on children’s rights and child wellbeing, with a particular emphasis on vulnerable populations. Dr. Todres’s primary research areas include child trafficking, domestic implementation of children’s rights law, economic and social rights issues, and legal and cultural constructs of childhood. Dr. Todres has authored numerous publications on a range of children’s rights issues. He also serves as a regular advisor to nongovernmental organizations working on policy initiatives to address children’s rights violations. Dr. Todres lectures frequently on children’s rights and has presented testimony before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child and at congressional briefings in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate on child trafficking

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and other children’s rights issues. Since 2012, Dr. Todres has served on three committees of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine—two on bullying and one on sex trafficking of minors in the United States. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Dr. Todres received his B.A. (International Development) from Clark University and his J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Emily Vargas-Baron, Ph.D., directs The RISE Institute, a global authority on policy development and research in early childhood development (ECD) and early childhood intervention (ECI). Dr. Vargas-Baron also conducts advisory services and research on ECD and ECI policy planning, implementation, and outcomes, serving in more than 25 nations since 2001. From 1994 to 2001, Dr. Vargas-Baron was a Deputy Assistant Administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development, leading activities in 80 nations for education, telecommunications, and international training. Previously, Dr. Vargas-Baron led an ECD and ECI institute and conducted field research in Austin, Texas; served as an Education Advisor for the Ford Foundation in the Andean Region of Latin America; and was an Education Specialist in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization focusing on educational planning. Dr. Vargas-Baron has also taught in four universities and authored many books and other publications on ECD, ECI, and educational development. Dr. Vargas-Baron has a Ph.D. in Cognitive Anthropology from Stanford University, with a specialization in international educational planning.

Amalia Waxman, M.A., is an expert in strategy and policy planning, advocacy, private–public partnerships, communications, multistakeholder relations, corporate social responsibility (CSR), international health policy, public affairs, issue and crisis management, and resource development. She is an experienced driver and manager of complex challenging innovative processes and campaigns. Ms. Waxman is also an effective intresectorial negotiator and mediator. She has unique professional experience in private, public, United Nations, and not-for-profit sectors. Some of her noteworthy achievements include leading the development of the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health, a pivotal global policy in the area of prevention of chronic diseases; adopted by most WHO member states. Ms. Waxman established, branded, and managed a food labeling system—a complex cross-industry CSR initiative. She also developed a national policy on prevention of chronic diseases adopted by the government of Israel.

Donald Wertlieb, Ph.D., is an applied developmental scientist specializing in pediatric psychology, president of the Partnership for Early

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Childhood Development and Disability Rights (PECDDR), and professor emeritus at Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University. He currently coordinates the Early Childhood Development Task Force for the Global Partnership on Children with Disabilities providing access to an international network of policy, program, and research advocates for inclusive early childhood development. He has served as senior consultant since 1998 at the Educational Resource Center for Children with Disabilities in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, providing professional development for Ukrainian colleagues’ pioneering efforts in community-based services for children with disabilities and their families. He served as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Mykolayev, Ukraine. He is a member of the Society for Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics and the International Society for Early Intervention, and has served as president of both the Society for Pediatric Psychology and the American Orthopsychiatric Association.

Hiro Yoshikawa, Ph.D., is the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. He is also the co-chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Workgroup on Early Childhood Development, Education, and the Transition to Work, and serves on the Network’s Leadership Council. He is a community and developmental psychologist who studies the effects of public policies and programs related to immigration, early childhood, and poverty reduction on children’s development. He conducts research in the United States and in low- and middle-income countries, including studies on early childhood development and policy in Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, and other countries. His recent books include Immigrants Raising Citizens: Undocumented Parents and Their Young Children (2011, Russell Sage). He has served on the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; the Early Childhood Advisory Committee of the Inter-American Development Bank; and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Head Start Research and Evaluation for the Clinton and Obama administrations. In 2011 he was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate as a member of the U.S. National Board for Education Sciences. In 2013 he was elected to the National Academy of Education. He obtained his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from New York University.

Tatjana Zorcec, Ph.D., is a psychologist at the University Children’s Hospital in Skopje, Macedonia. In 1993, she achieved her B.A. in psychology and in 2003 became a specialist in clinical psychology at the Medical

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Faculty in Skopje. She also holds a master’s degree and doctoral degree in medical sciences. In 2009, Dr. Zorcec was appointed as National Coordinator for Autism by the Macedonian Ministry of Health. In 2015, she became an associated professor at the Medical faculty. Dr. Zorcec gained additional education in several medical centers in Europe, the United States, and Australia. She is an active member in several national and international scientific projects, and author or co-author on 90 articles in scientific journals.

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The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2015-2030 strive for a world that is "just, equitable, and inclusive," in which everyone receives care, education, and opportunities to thrive. Yet many children are living on the margins of society, face multiple disadvantages, and are excluded from full participation in all that life has to offer. To examine the science, economics, and politics of investing in the health, education, nutrition, and social protection of children at the margins, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in Prague, Czech Republic in November 2015. Held in partnership with the Open Society Foundations and the International Step by Step Association, the workshop convened a diverse group of stakeholders from around the world for 2 days of discussion. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

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