Benjamin Perks works for the United Nations in New York campaigning on human rights and child development globally. For twenty-five years, Perks has worked on eradicating global barriers to child well-being, including poverty, hunger, disease, the mobilization of child soldiers, and population displacement. He has also been on a personal journey of healing from his childhood, spent living in the UK's care system and on the streets. Benjamin is a Senior Fellow at the Jubilee Centre at the University of Birmingham in the UK, which researches education policy on the character, social, and emotional development of children, and is an Associate Faculty Member at Oxford University Department of Social Policy and Innovation.