Passionate and results-focused Executive with 20+ years’ of leading social change in International development and crisis management settings across four continents around the world.

With a career spanning two decades of working with UNICEF, Thomas is still indefatigable about finding ways to empower children to reach their true potential , as the main solution to many of the world’s current challenges. Now, as the new Director of global Innovations at UNICEF, Thomas leads the quest for impactful innovations that offer transformational potential for children; from data science to AI, machine leaning to blockchain and product innovations – to be picked up and used to create global social goods that advance humanity and ensure that no Child gets left behind

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