Best Interests of the Child - Biography 1 | Page 9

Gerison LANSDOWN Gerison Lansdown was the founder director of the Children’s Rights Alliance for England, and is now an international children’s rights consultant and advocate who has published and lectured widely on the subject of children’s rights. She was actively involved in the drafting of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, is a visiting scholar at Queen’s University Belfast, a senior associate of the International Institute for Child Rights and Development in Victoria, Chair of Child to Child and a member of the Edito-rial Board of the Canadian Journal of Children’s Rights. Karl HANSON Karl Hanson is Professor in Public Law at the Children’s Rights Unit, University Institute Kurt Bösch (IUKB) in Sion, Switzerland. He obtained his doctorate in Law from Ghent University, Belgium, where he worked as a Researcher at the Children’s Rights Centre and as a Senior Researcher at the Human Rights Centre. His publications and main research interests are in the emerging field of interdisciplinary children’s rights studies and include theorizations on children’s rights and childhood studies, child labour and working children, juvenile justice and the role of independent national children’s rights institutions. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the National Observatory on Childhood in Danger (ONED, France) and an editor of the journal Childhood (Sage). He teaches at the IUKB in the Master interdisciplinaire en droits de l’enfant (MIDE). He is also the Programme Director of the Master of Advanced Studies in Children’s Rights (MCR) and a member of the Directive Committee of the Eur