About this speaker
Mieke Schuurman is Senior Policy Advisor on children’s rights & safeguarding for Eurochild. At Eurochild she is responsible for advising on children’s rights in relation to EU and Council of Europe policies and she is leading Eurochild’s child participation work, for which she has developed Eurochild’s internal child participation strategy.
She is responsible for child safeguarding at Eurochild and developed Eurochild’s child protection policy. She also provides child safeguarding trainings to Eurochild staff and externals working with Eurochild.
Before joining Eurochild, she has worked as an independent expert in the field of children’s rights and EU law since 2009. She has carried out assignments for various international organisations and NGOs, including the Council of Europe, European Commission, Eurochild and UNICEF. She has provided advice, carried out research and given trainings on children’s rights. Formerly, she was Secretary-General of the European Children’s Network (EURONET).
She has a Master in Law (LLM) and European Studies (MA).
