Mr. Kul Chandra Gautam, Former Co-Chair of the UN Secretary-General’s Independent Accountability Panel for Every Woman, Every Child, Every Adolescent, is a distinguished international civil servant, development professional, public policy expert, and human rights activist. He is a former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations with extensive experience in international diplomacy, development cooperation and humanitarian assistance. In his long UN career spanning over three decades, Gautam provided leadership for strategic planning, policy guidance and programme management. Mr. Gautam serves on the Boards of several international organizations, charitable foundations and public private partnerships. He is Chair of the Board of anti-poverty advocacy organization RESULTS, Inc (USA); Member of the Board of Trustees of OXFAM GB; Trustee of Religions for Peace (USA); Member, Steering Committee of Global Partnership on Violence against Children (USA); a Champion for the Global Partnership for Education (GPE); and recipient of the 2018 Harris Wofford Global Citizen Award.