Best Interests of the Child - Biography 1 | Page 5

In her previous post as deputy head of unit for criminal law, Margaret was
responsible for European e-Justice, contributing to the improvement of
access to justice and crossborder judicial cooperation.

Ursula KILKELLY
Professor Ursula Kilkelly of University College Cork (Ireland) is an international
children’s rights scholar who has published widely on children’s rights in
Europe. Her work is concerned with the implementation of children’s rights
including in the areas of juvenile justice and healthcare and she has also
published extensively on the European Convention on Human Rights and
children. She has undertaken commissioned research for the Ombudsman
for Children in Ireland, UNICEF UK and the International Juvenile Justice
Observatory and she has worked closely with the Council of Europe-the CPT,
the Commissioner of Human Rights and the Children’s Rights Division on
child-friendly justice, detention, participation and child-friendly healthcare
issues. She is currently undertaking a two year project on child rights
advocacy funded by the Atlantic Philanthropies with particular emphasis on
use of the law to advance children’s rights. At UCC, she teaches Child Law,
Juvenile Justice and Children’s Rights and she is director of the Child Law
Clinic at UCC, a legal research service that enables students to support
lawyers to litigate children’s rights issues nationally and internationally.

Tam BAILLIE
Before becoming the Scotland’s Commissioner in May 2009, Tam Baillie
worked with children and young people for 30 years, both directly and
as a manager. He mainly worked with young offenders, young people in
and leaving care and young homeless people. Tam Baillie has worked in
Scotland and England in government and voluntary organisations. He
worked as the Director of Policy for Barnardo’s Scotland from 2003 and
worked extensively on children’s rights policy issues.

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