Sonia is a young girl from Ukraine. Her school was reduced to rubble by the war, leaving her education under threat.

Inger Ashing is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Save the Children International. A respected child rights activist, she set up her own youth organisation at the age of 12, working against racism and violence at county level. Since then Inger has been determined to make children’s voices heard. She has been associated with Save the Children for more than 25 years, first serving as a youth advocate and later on the Boards of Save the Children Sweden and Save the Children International. Prior to her appointment in September 2019, Inger held various national and international roles focused on children’s right, most recently as the Director General at the Swedish Agency against Segregation. She a member of the Ethics Council at The Swedish Migration Agency and has been an expert to and board member of several authorities and committees such as the Delegation for Human Rights, the Swedish National Knowledge Centre on Violence against Children and the Delegation for the Employment of Young People and Newly Arrived Migrants.

You can follow her on Twitter at @SaveCEO_Intl

Mr. Bertrand Bainvel, a French national, is the UNICEF Representative to the European Union Institutions and Director at UNICEF Partnership Office in Brussels. He previously served as Deputy Regional Director for UNICEF Middle East and North Africa, UNICEF Representative in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Head of the Partnership Office in Moscow and Representative to the Russian Federation, and UNICEF Representative in Jamaica. Other postings held by Mr. Bainvel were Deputy to the UNICEF Special Representative in Jerusalem, State of Palestine, Programme Officer with the UNICEF Health Section in New York, USA, and assignments in Albania and Mongolia. Prior to joining UNICEF in 1992, he worked in various capacities with financial and marketing private sector companies in France. He holds a master’s degree in Business Administration, from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (H.E.C- 1988.), Paris, France, and a master’s degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (2003).