Författare: Alberto Minujin

Born in Argentina, Alberto Minujin is professor at The New School University, New York, researching and teaching about child poverty reduction and equity, human rights, monitoring and evaluation, and social research methods. He is director of the Equity for Children Program and Website. A UNICEF Senior Officer from 1990-2005 with expertise in North and South America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, Minujin is a mathematician with training in Applied Statistics and Demography. Shailen Nandy is Research Associate in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. A co-author of Child poverty in the developing world (with David Gordon, Christina Pantazis, Simon A. Pemberton and Peter Townsend; The Policy Press, 2003), he has undertaken research for UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the UK Department for International Development. He is currently working on the ESRC-funded research project Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK (www.poverty.ac.uk).