Child Poverty, Youth (Un)Employment, and Social Inclusion

Gabriele Koehler, lead editor, is a development economist trained in Germany, and a Senior Research Associate affiliated with UNRISD, Geneva. She is a former UN official with over 25 years of experience across four UN agencies and a former Senior ACUNS Fellow. Her research and advocacy work focuses on the UN-led development agenda and on social and economic policy with a focus on human rights and social protection. She is on the governing board of the UN Association Germany. Alberto D Cimadamore is the CROP Scientific Director, Professor of Theory of International Relations at the University of Buenos Aires, and Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research of Argentina. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles. His publications focus on the political economy of poverty, development, and regional integration. Fadia Kiwan is Professor of Political Science at Saint Joseph University of Beirut and Founder of the Institute of political science at Saint Joseph University of Beirut. She holds a “Doctorat d’état” in Comparative Politics from the University Paris1– Sorbonne and a CAPES in Philosophy and Psychology from the Lebanese University. She is President of the UNESCO MOST Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) and Director General of the Arab Women Organisation. Pedro Manuel Monreal Gonzalez is Programme Specialist, Sector for Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO Paris and member of the Secretariat of the Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Havana. His research interests include social inclusion, the research–policymaking nexus, and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

Alberto Minujin is professor at the Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs (SGPIA), The New School, New York. He taught at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York. He conducts research and teaches on the topics of children, human rights, poverty, equity as well as monitoring and evaluation, social research methods, social protection and budgeting. He is executive director of the New School program Equity for Children and of the Latin American initiative Equidad para la Infancia (www.equityforchildren.org and www.equidadparalainfancia.org). At The New School he also directs the International Summer Field Program in Argentina; is senior fellow of the Latin American Observatory (OLA); coordinates international conferences co-sponsored by SGPIA and UNICEF; and authors books on the topics of social policy and children. He is member of the Academic Board of the Comparative Research on Poverty (CROP) centre at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is professor at the University Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina. Among others publications, Minujin was the editor and author of Global Child Poverty and Well-Being. Measurement, concepts, policy and action (Policy Press 2012), Child Poverty in East Asia and the Pacific: Deprivation and Disparities (UNICEF EAPRO 2011), and three recent books published by The New School. Monica González Contró holds a PhD in Fundamental Rights from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She is a researcher at the Institute of Law Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), specializing in children’s rights; a professor at the Faculty of Law, UNAM; and the coordinator of a postgraduate program on the Right to Nondiscrimination. She is an honorary councilor of the Mexican National Human Rights Commission and of the Mexico City Human Rights Commission, and a member of the board of directors of Copred (Council for the Prevention of Discrimination in Mexico City) and of the Federal Legal Aid to Victims. Raul Mercer MD MSc. Coordinator of the Program of Social Sciences and Health at FLACSO (Latin American School of Social Sciences). Researcher at CISAP (Center for Research in Population Health, Durand Hospital), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Academic Coordinator of the International Course of Health Promotion (FLACSO). Member of the Latin American Initiative of Child Rights and Health.