Alex started out as a teacher in London, before joining Teach For All, a growing network of organizations working in sixty countries worldwide to ensure all children fulfil their potential, where he now heads the Global Learning Lab. He's fortunate to spend his time travelling the world in search of the future of learning, and has written about his experiences for the Guardian, Financial Times, and Wired. He presented The Learning Revolution, a three part series on the future of education for BBC Radio 4, and is the author of Natural Born Learners, a guide to transforming learning in the twenty-first century

Richard Louv is a journalist and author of ten books, including Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder; The Nature Principle; and Vitamin N.    His newest book is Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives — and Save Theirs. Translated into 22 languages, his books have helped launch an international movement to connect children, their families and communities to nature.

He is co-founder and Chair Emeritus of the nonprofit Children & Nature Network, which supports a new nature movement.

In 2008, he was awarded the Audubon Medal, presented by the National Audubon Society. Prior recipients have included Rachel Carson, E. O. Wilson, Sir David Attenborough and President Jimmy Carter. Among other awards, Louv is also the recipient of the Cox Award for 2007, Clemson University’s highest honor for “sustained achievement in public service” and Garden Club of America’s 2020 Margaret Douglas Medal for “notable service to the cause of conservation education.” 

He speaks frequently around the world, including American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference, first White House Summit on Environmental Education, the Congress of the New Urbanism, International Healthy Parks Conference in Melbourne, Australia, and the national Friends of Nature Conference in Beijing, China.  

Louv has written for the New York Times, the Times of London, Parents Magazine and many other publications. He has appeared on CBS This Morning, NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Good Morning America, NPR's Talk of the Nation. Married to Kathy Frederick Louv, he is the father of two young men, Jason and Matthew. He would rather hike than write.

Learn more at www.richardlouv.com.

Alexandra Luz, graduated in medicine from Faculdade de Medicina of Universidade de Coimbra in 2004, she did her residency in Paediatrics in Centro Hospitalar de Leiria, where she worked as an Paediatrics assistant from 2011 until 2019.

Post-graduation in “Ginecologia Infanto-Juvenil”, by Sociedade Argentina de Ginecologia Infanto Juvenil in collaboration with Universidade de La Plata.

 She is part of the Unidade de Saúde e Medicina do Adolescente since  2011 and also part of the management of Sociedade Portuguesa de Medicina do Adolescente since 2015. The focus of her work has been the Consulta de Medicina do Adolescente, with the public presentation of multiple works, as well as the publication of more than a dozen of articles in this field, and the participation in research projects with the aim to promote health in this age range. Coordinator of the award-winning project  “Adolescer Saudável”, an initiative which seeks to carry out consultations on adolescent medicine in a school environment.

Professor at the Instituto Politécnico de Leiria from 2007 until 2009. Responsible for training activities in the field of Medicina do Adolescente. 

Participation in scientific meetings as a reviewer, moderator, speaker and organiser. 

Scientific reviewer at Acta Pediátrica Portuguesa.

Anthropologist and executive director of P&D - Associação para a Cooperação sobre População e Desenvolvimento, Alice Frade has been working on Advocacy and Cooperation for Development for 14 years. She's author and co-author of several works in this area, specially on Education, Sexual end Reprodutive Health, Population and Developments and Human Rights. Alice Frade is also consultant on the program "Príncipes do Nada".

Doctoral Student in Child Studies – Special Education at UMinho.

Master in Special Education – Early Educational Intervention Branch at UMinho.

Graduated in Speech Therapy by ESTSPorto, works in private practice, Psikontacto – Training and Intervention Center, Clitrofa, clinical, home and school contexts.

Trainer in the areas of Communication, Language and Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Floortime technique, certified by ICDL.

Supervisor for professional and curricular internships.

Professional Training in the scope of Assessment and Intervention Methodologies and Instruments in Autism Spectrum Disorders (SCERTS Model, DIR – Floortime, ABLC, Intensive Interaction, ADOS, ADI-R, Project ImPACT)

Author of articles published in books and magazines, in the field of communication and language and autism spectrum disorders.

Anja Teltschik, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist - Child Protection, UNICEF Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (ECARO). Anja is providing technical leadership, guidance and quality assurance in the area of monitoring, evaluation and data analytics in support of UNICEF’s engagement on child poverty, social exclusion and protection in the region. She has provided technical guidance and support to the UNICEF/Eurochild’s DataCare project. She is also supporting the implementation of the Phase III of the Preparatory Action of the European Child Guarantee and the work of the Task Force on Statistics on Children, Adolescents and Youth of the Conference of European Statisticians, as well as related efforts to strengthen data and data systems in Europe and other parts of the region.  

Beata Kulig has been working in foster care since 2008 as an advocacy advisor at SOS Children’s Village Poland (hereinafter: SOS CV Poland), additionally in charge of Child Protection Policy. She is also SOS CV Poland’s representative in Polish Foster Care Coalition (hereinafter: PFCC) and cooperates with Eurochild.

Beata Kulig has collaborated in numerous foster care-aimed projects in Poland, such as “Creation and implementation of research tool to verify deinstitutionalisation of foster care in districts of Poland”. She was a member of working group established by Polish Ministry of Labour and Social Policy whose aim was to write “Project of national strategy of development and deinstitutionalisation of social services in Poland till 2040”, in which she was co-writing its chapter dedicated to children, youth and family. Beata Kulig is a an author of many analyses and reports on foster care and its deinstitutionalisation in Poland.

As trainer Beata Kulig coaches parents and foster parents, teachers, staff of social care system and Polish state court probation officers on trauma and support to trauma-affected people. She practises the method of TBRI (Trust Based Relational Intervention).

Psychotherapist and associated member of Portuguese Association of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (AP) and of Portuguese Society of Psychosomatics (SPPS).

My dream and mission to every patient that seeks my services are to help them visualize the future reconciled with the past and abandoning it and to leave undesirable places from within grounded in an authentic and trustful therapeutic relationship.
Travel, music, theater and literature enthusiastic, I am also a “Run4Living” thus running and marathon is not only a physical exercise but it’s also a metaphor for life.
 

Pediatrician. Member of NHACJR at Hospital Prof. Doutor Fernando Fonseca. Member of Social Pediatrics Section of the Portuguese Pediatrics Society.;

Graduated by Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Barcelona  With a maste degree in Tropical Medicine by Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine/ Universidade de Lisboa Hospital Assistant at the Paediatric Intensive and special care unit of the Paediatric department of Hospital Prof. Doutor Fernando Fonseca, EPE (Amadora-Sintra) Board member of the Secção de Pediatria Social da Sociedade Portuguesa de Pediatria Professor of the integrated Master of medicine at Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon.

Carmen Sánchez Hernández has a bachelor degree in law by the Universidad de Málaga (1990) and has the Premio Extraordinary de Licenciatura. She is doctorate in Law by the Universidad de Málaga (1995) and Full Professor of Civil Law (2000). She was coordinator of the masters degree of Mediation since the Academic Degree 2010/11 of the Faculdad de Derecho de la Universaidad de Málaga until 2015/2’16. Before she was the Academic Director of the degree of Mediation and Extrajudicial of conflicts in the Faculdad de Derecho de la Universidad de Málaga (Academic degree 2003/2004), Expert Title in Mediation (Academic degree 2004/2004); Master in Mediation (Academic degrees 2005/06; 2006/07; 2007/08; 2008/09). Research sections: 3 six-year periods. Faculty sections: 5 five-year periods. Stays in foreigns Investigations centres: Law School of Regensburg University (Germany); Law School of Colonia University (Germany); Law School of Phanteón-Assas University. Paris II (France) and Law school of Lisbon University (Portugal.

Ciaran is working with Eurochild to bridge the gap between evidence and policy to improve the lives of children in Europe. As part of his role, Ciaran is coordinating Eurochild’s DataCare project with UNICEF ECARO. Together, we are building a convincing evidence base for a more transparent, common approach to data collection and reporting for children in alternative care across Europe.