Alison leads a team working across policy, research, lobbying and public campaigning on both international and domestic child rights issues. Priorities include: embedding child rights as a framework for decision-making by government; building resilience including child sensitive climate change adaptation internationally; ending child poverty in UK; and meeting the Millennium Development Goals with equity, through a child rights focus.

She is Chair of the UNICEF National Committees’ Advocacy Network and the Children’s Rights Alliance England and a Trustee of Practical Action. Previously she worked for BOND and CAFOD, as well as with networks like the Trade Justice Movement, Jubilee Debt Campaign and the 2005 Make Poverty History campaign.

She has travelled extensively in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Having studied Geography at Cambridge, and completed an MA in International Development at Sussex, she recently finished an LLM in Human Rights at the University of London.