Rob Williams is Chief Executive of the Fatherhood Institute, the UK think tank on the changing role of fathers.  From 2006-2008 he was Chief Executive of 11 MILLION (the Children’s Commissioner’s Office) and was appointed Deputy Children’s Commissioner for England in February 2008. He was Chief Executive of BLISS, the premature baby charity, from 2003-2006 and prior to that he spent 10 years working in international development including spells as Country Director for Concern Worldwide in Cambodia and Burundi and two years leading rapid response teams to conflict zones in Africa and Asia. As Concern’s Operations Director in New York from 1999-2002 he was responsible for child survival programmes in several countries, achieving large reductions in maternal and infant mortality in poor urban and rural communities.

Rob graduated in law from Oxford University in 1986 and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst and Young before joining the voluntary sector. He joined the Board of Trustees of UNICEF UK in December 2008.