Georgette Mulheir, Chief Executive
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 Over the past 17 years, Georgette has worked in 14 countries across Europe and Africa leading large-scale programmes to transform the lives of thousands of vulnerable children and their families. She pioneered a model of deinstitutionalisation now followed in many countries across Central and Eastern Europe, and has advised governments on the reform of their services for children and families. She is the author of four books related to children’s rights, and is currently advising the European Commission on the reform of children’s services across the European Union. |
Kate Richardson, Director of Programmes
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 Kate is a qualified social worker with experience of working in Local Authority residential and fieldwork services since 1988. She has been involved in specialist child protection work since 1996. In 2000, Kate joined the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) managing the Specialist Investigation Service across the North West of England. Her role included large-scale investigations concerning disabled children, chairing of serious case reviews, investigation of senior professionals and investigation of children in care who were sexually exploited. Kate is a founding member of the National Working Group on Child Protection and Disability, she has published work on Child Protection Systems and Disabled Children and has contributed to many national guidance and training initiatives in this area. In 2005 Kate was seconded into the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre where she set up and managed the social work service and provided specialist operational support internally and to several national and international law enforcement agencies. Kate has contributed widely to research and practice in technology related child abuse, child trafficking and child exploitation; and abuse by those in positions of trust. Kate has significant experience of development and delivery of specialist child protection services, staff management and specialist training initiatives in the UK and overseas. Kate has worked extensively with a number of national and international bodies including United Nations departments, Governments and NGOs. Kate has also been published in the management of secondary trauma impact on staff working in the field of child protection. |
Kerry Hall, Remote Expert Support Service Coordinator |
 Kerry has over ten years experience working with children and young adults in institutions in Eastern Europe and Sudan. From 2000 to 2006 she worked for a children’s charity where she participated in, and project managed, deinstitutionalisation programmes in Romania, Albania, Transnistria (Moldova) and Sudan. Kerry is a trained nursery nurse and has also worked in a variety of childcare settings in the UK. She is an experienced therapist with a special interest in working with children with disabilities, complex needs and challenging behaviours. She has helped to design the deinstitutionalisation framework that Lumos uses in its country programmes.
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Laure Trebosc, Programme Development Co-ordinator |
 Laure’s role is to expand Lumos programmes to new countries by developing relationships with government and non-governmental agencies responsible for child protection and building up professional country teams. Prior to working with Lumos, she was involved with institutionalised children and young adults in Russia from 2001-2006. She then worked for a Russian regional charity aiming to integrate children with special needs into the community. Laure’s main responsibility in that post was the design and coordination of a regional level deinstitutionalisation project in the Pskov region of Russia. Laure has a background in political science and economics and has experience implementing a range of projects in coordination with the European Union, World Bank, national, regional and local government agencies in the wider European region.
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Nolan Quigley, Advocacy and Campaigns Manager
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 Nolan joined Lumos as Advocacy and Campaigns Manager in September 2011. He has over 10 years of experience in campaigning and advocacy and will be developing our International Advocacy Strategy at an international level. Previously he worked as International Policy and Campaigns Manager at Leonard Cheshire Disability, where one of his key projects was to oversee the development of the ‘Young Voices’ campaign, in which young disabled people around the world advocate for their own rights. Prior to that Nolan was European and International Manager at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) and European Campaigns Officer at RNIB; during this time he has held various positions in UK and EU coalitions such as BOND, IDDC (International Disability and Development Consortium) and CEDAG (European Council of Associations of General Interest). |
Irina Malanciuc, Country Representative, Moldova |
 Irina has worked extensively in the field of reform of health and child protection systems. She has particular experience in developing community integrated social welfare service, including setting up procedures, guides, handbooks and developing standards for community services. She is also an experienced advocate and lobbyist, and has worked extensively for UNICEF and the Ministry of Health in Moldova. |
Petra Kačírková, Country Representative, Czech Republic |
 Petra has been working in the mental health field for the last ten years. She spent several years as a project manager with the Centre for Mental Health Care Development in Prague and is an expert on the subjects of the humanisation of psychiatric hospitals, using comprehensive programmes of education to improve client-centred mental health care, increasing skills and competencies of community workers, mainstreaming mental disability policies, educating nurses in the sphere of rehabilitation, educating specialists in community mental health care, developing continual education of general practitioners and psychiatrists, and the transformation of institutional care toward to new, innovative approaches.
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Rossi Petrova, Country Representative, Bulgaria
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 Rossi has 12-years’ experience in developing community-based services for children and families; 10 of these specifically in social work management. She has a Masters in HR management and development in social work. Rossi started her career as part of a team developing one of the first pilot projects in Bulgaria introducing prevention, reintegration and foster care as alternatives to institutions for children. Between 2005-2006 she worked as a consultant to the Child Welfare Reform Project in Bulgaria, a major project resulting in setting up community-based services for children and families at risk and since then as a Director of the Complex for Social Services for Children and Families in Plovdiv |
James Chamberlain, Training Officer
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 James joined Lumos from a background in Local Authority children's services. He spent several years as a Training Manager in a London authority, implementing a multi-agency training programme and working closely with other agencies to embed learning across all sectors working with children. James has particular experience in training on integrated working, assessment skills, early intervention and personalised planning. |
