Her work bridges clinical research and international child health. She has led the development of the International Classification of Functioning (ICF) Core Sets for children and youth with cerebral palsy and has carried out extensive knowledge translation projects applying ICF in paediatric rehabilitation globally.

He has been involved in education policy development, curriculum and assessment design across Ghana and Africa. He has also taken on leadership roles such as Secretary of the Ghana Education Research Association (GERA).

Her expertise spans primary health care, health workforce, health financing, and health markets in low- and middle-income countries. She is also interested in effective approaches to connecting evidence to policy and decision-making.

He is also a senior researcher affiliated with CIPPEC (Argentina) and a lead coordinating author for the International Panel on Social Progress.

She has over 15 years of experience working in ECD across the health and education sectors, supporting governments, UN agencies, philanthropic and civil society organisations to develop child-centred solutions.

He is also Professor Emeritus at the University of South Florida (USA), where he was director of the doctoral program in special education and, later, founding director of the Center for Research on Children’s Development and Learning.

He began his university teaching career at age 25 at the University of Cape Coast (Ghana), his Alma Mater. After completing his doctoral studies at the University of Alberta (Canada) in 1985, he held an assistant professorship at Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada) and an associate professorship at Kent State University (USA) before his appointment as full professor at the University of South Florida. His research spans early development, parent-child interaction, childhood disability in low- and middle-income countries, and behavioral adjustment in children adopted into North America from China. He is an author in the recently released Cambridge University Press volume “Pillars of Developmental Psychology: Recollections and Reflections” edited by Frank Kessel of the University of New Mexico.

Her research focuses on early childhood education and care policies. She is affiliated with CIEPP and the National University of Cuyo. Currently, she serves as a consultant for the World Bank Group’s Women, Business, and the Law project, working with the Childcare Indicators team, and for WIEGO, mapping childcare typologies across the Global South. Her research includes the expansion of childcare policies in Latin America.

He has an MA and PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester and previously taught at Addis Ababa University. His research focuses on children and youth development, migration, wellbeing, and food security.

She has been a visiting professor at institutions including the University of Notre Dame, University of Edinburgh and Toronto Metropolitan University and has authored numerous studies on street children, civic engagement, and child rights in Brazil and in several other countries.

Formerly Executive Director at Know Violence in Childhood and Social Policy Specialist at UNICEF India, she remains a respected international social policy analyst with teaching and research experience at IDS, University of Sussex.

His research covers maternal and child health, infant and child development under adversity, maternal depression, and community-based interventions. He was a coordinating writer of the WHO’s “Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development” framework and has consulted for WHO, USAID, World Bank, and others. He is an Academy of Science member in South Africa and recipient of Stellenbosch’s Chancellor’s Research Award.

He is a member of the European Commission Expert Working Group on Early Childhood Education and Care, a member of the Global Advocacy Group with the global Right to Education initiative, and a member of the Board of TASC – Think Tank for Action on Social Change. He is the lead author of the Early Childhood Development, Education and Care policy briefs for the T20/G20 presidencies 2018 (Argentina), 2019 (Japan), 2020 (Saudi Arabia), 2021 (Italy), 2022 (Indonesia), 2024 (Brazil), and 2025 (South Africa).