Mark Waltham has worked as a Senior Education Adviser in UNICEF’s New York HQ since 2012.  His primary focus is on issues of access to education, and he is responsible for leading UNICEF’s global Out of School Children Initiative.  Before joining UNICEF, Mark spent 13 years as a senior education adviser in the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), including postings in Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Asia-Pacific region on secondment to AusAID, Iraq, and Nepal.  Previously, Mark worked at Cambridge University in the UK, with the Intermediate Technology Development Group in Nepal, and as a secondary school mathematics teacher in the UK and Ghana.  Mark holds both a PhD and an MEd in education research.  He is married with two children.