Thomas Davin

At the forefront of child welfare, deploying ground-breaking tech-led initiatives that changed the lives of millions of children worldwide. Passionate and result-focused executive with 20+ years’ experience in social change and nonprofit sector in four continents in international development and crisis management settings. 23 years in UNICEF, yet 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 challenge. Now, as the UNICEF global innovation director, Thomas and his team focus on spotting and then imagining the most effective global scaling pathways for innovation solutions that offer transformational potential for children, from data science to AI, machine leaning, blockchain, to product innovations to be picked up and used, so that, together, we create global social goods that advance humanity. Prior to taking up his current position, Thomas held multiple roles focused on social impact and human rights across four continents, with an initial focus on human rights violations and survival response in crises and humanitarian settings with deployments across the Balkans, South Asia and the Middle East, and most recently Head of Mission for UNICEF in Thailand and Algeria.