1) What is your name and what was your last assignment with UNICEF? Tim Sutton, Representative in Sri Lanka.
2) How old do you feel?
Don‘t want to put a specific number on it – it varies a little day by day – but generally somewhere in the mid 30s.
3) Where do you live?
Kapiti Coast in New Zealand.4) What book do you currently read?
Like Joachim have just finished Ian McEwan’s “What We Can Know”. Highly recommend it. Am now reading “Great Uncle Harry” by Michael Palin – an interesting insight in to a fairly ordinary life, lived and lost in the late 19th and early 20th century.
5) If you could travel without restrictions, where would you go?
Hmmm. Maybe Antarctica.
6) Your best experience with UNICEF?
Hard to identify one – but professionally most satisfying was probably working in China or maybe ...7) Your biggest challenge when working for UNICEF?
Staying awake during some very long, very boring and largely unproductive UNICEF meetings and workshops. And I am unhappy to report that these types of events aren’t unique to UNICEF.8) What is your biggest fear, in relation to the future of children?
That the amazing progress that been wrought for children all around the world, now seems to be much more fragile than we thought/hoped.
9) What is your greatest hope, in relation to children?
People care and are finding ways to act, even when the most powerful on the planet can’t seem to see past the size of their …10) What is your one piece of advice you wish to give to the UNICEF Executive Director?
Be vocal, be focused, be relentless, be brave. Some of your predecessors have shown that UNICEF can lead change for children globally– you can too!
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