Anthony Nolan is the global Deputy Director (Violence Prevention and Response) for the International Rescue Committee (IRC). He has 20 years of experience designing, implementing and monitoring justice, social welfare and violence prevention policy and service delivery initiatives. Prior to joining the IRC, Anthony led the design and roll out of the Norwegian Refugee Council's new Protection from Violence sector. He has led a range of protection portfolios for UNICEF, including national juvenile justice reforms in Papua New Guinea, constitutional reform and the national scale up of specialised services for survivors of sexual violence in Zimbabwe; and emergency child protection services in South Sudan, and served as Chief of Child Protection in South Africa. His understanding of the humanitarian coordination architecture is deep and has contributed to the shift towards more local actor engagement across protection and other humanitarian sector. He recently co-chaired the Global Protection Cluster Strategic Advisory Group, is a former Global Education Cluster Coordinator and advisor with the Global Child Protection Area of Responsibility. Anthony has also worked in the statutory child protection and disability sectors in Australia. His academic training is in Psychology, holds a master’s in human services and is an accredited safeguarding investigator. He has co-authored several journal articles related to protection, including in Child Abuse and Neglect, Child Indicators Research and the Forced Migration Review. He has lived and worked in the Pacific, Southern Africa, Australia and Switzerland. Anthony is a CEVAW Affiliate Anthony based in Geneva, Switzerland.