Tina Hyder is former Deputy Director of the Early Childhood Program of the Open Society Foundations, based in London, and led OSF’s early childhood development projects and grants in Africa and Asia. As Deputy Director, she helped forge partnerships to strengthen early childhood policies, research, networks and programs for young children and their families. Prior to joining OSF in 2009, Tina was a Global Adviser for Save the Children UK, supporting more than 50 country offices around the world to promote the rights of children affected by discrimination. Earlier work includes programming for children affected by conflict and other emergencies, in addition to research on children’s perspectives of physical punishment and policy and practical responses to working with refugee children.