UNICEF Representative Benjamin Perks at UACS on March 14th!

School of Political Science & Department of Psychology

have the honour of inviting you to the guest lecture of

Mr. Benjamin Perks, MSc, UNICEF Representative and Resident Coordinator ad interim of the United Nations to the Republic of North Macedonia.

Emerging science on child development and how it influences policy

Thursday 14 March 2019, 11:30 – 12:30 at UACS, room A1

Mr. Benjamin Perks is the UNICEF Representative and Resident Coordinator ad interim of the United Nations to the Republic of North Macedonia. In both capacities he advocates for reforms to fulfil international human rights commitments and realization of the Sustainable Development Goals.

In his personal capacity, he is a Senior Fellow at the Jubilee Centre at the University of Birmingham in the UK, which researches and advises on education policy related to development of character social and emotional skills in children.

He is also Chair of the Regional Advisory Group on Violence Against Children which promotes reforms in support of primary prevention and response in 21 countries in Europe and Eastern Asia. He was previously the UNICEF Representative to Montenegro, and has also served in Georgia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, India and Albania. In Afghanistan he helped to coordinate the “Back to School campaign” in the country which brought 3 million children, including 1 million girls, into school-most of them for the first times in their lives.

He holds a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury and has recently completed a mid-career programme with the Harvard Graduate School of Education on Leadership and Education Reform.

Lecture open to the public. All welcome!