An experienced strategist and policy senior professional offering advisory services to relevant government entities, UN agencies, consulting firms and civil society organizations driving forward the social and community development agendas in the Middle East, Australia and Asia. Well recognized as a family rights and child protection advocate, she has extensive technical and managerial expertise in culturally diverse demographic contexts making sustainable changes in systems, policy and service delivery that are contextually appropriate, fiscally responsible, and evidence-based international standards for children and youth. She has conducted research on several issues including family violence, child trafficking and social inclusion of marginalized population groups. In recent years, she has worked with senior leadership in several UAE government entities developing strategic and business plans for prevention of child abuse, social inclusion of people with disability, social care and benefits services provision, human rights, and licensing and regulation of development professionals. She contributed to the country wide strategic road map for child protection, child rights law, federal child abuse reporting hotline, and a smartphone application for reporting child abuse. She has been instrumental in preparing the minimum standards child protection policy for schools, victims of abuse policy, family wellbeing conceptual framework. Her advise has been sought on ECD policy and legislative gap analysis, parental leave policy, family dispute policy, screen exposure policy and parentfriendly label policy. Her current work around emotional safety and resilience in the context of early childhood development and child wellbeing is notable. In her last assignment as an assessor, she was involved in evaluating and improving the performance of government entities. Founder of STOGOCOMP, she provides pro-bono advisory services to Emirates Safer Internet Society, a non-government organization in Abu Dhabi.