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Susan Bissell - Chief of Child Protection, Programme Division
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Susan Bissell first joined UNICEF in 1987 in New York in what was then called DIPA - the Division of Information and Public Affairs. She then enrolled in the University of Toronto to complete a Masters degree in law, economics and international relations. Following graduation, she joined UNICEF Sri Lanka, working on education and CEDC - children in especially difficult circumstances - issues. Susan moved to Bangladesh and continued to work in UNICEF with a focus on CEDC and education and child labour.
In 1997, Susan began a Ph.D in public health and medical anthropology at the WHO Key Center for Women's Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Melbourne. While completing her doctorate, Susan also worked with Trudie Styler and the Bangladeshi film team of Catherine and Tareque Masud to produce the documentary "A Kind of Childhood".
Susan returned to UNICEF in 2001 as the Chief of Child Protection in India. In 2004, she transferred to the Innocenti Research Center where she managed the Implementing International Standards Unit. Susan managed a number of reports including a 62-country study on the implementation of the general measures of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and global research on the Palermo Protocol and child trafficking. As member of the Editorial Board of the report of the UN Secretary General's Study on Violence Against Children which was released in 2006, Susan has also been involved in follow-up activities that will advance the implementation of the recommendations of the UN Study.
She is a national of Canada.
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