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Dr Claire Achmad
Chief Children's Commissioner, Aotearoa New Zealand
Dr Achmad has been Chief Children’s Commissioner since November 2023. She has been a visible advocate for all mokopuna, meeting them in their communities across the motu and carrying their voices, perspectives and experiences to decision-makers across Government and the community sector. Claire been a vocal advocate on a range of issues, including across the child and youth health sector, care and protection and youth justice issues, championing children, young people and their rights in a range of spaces and leading public discourse.
Claire has previously worked in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally in a wide range of areas relating to children's rights, including from legal, policy and practice perspectives. Previously, she was Chief Executive Officer of Social Service Providers Te Pai Ora o Aotearoa, progressing the aspirations and outcomes of children, rangatahi and whānau and community-based social services. Claire has worked for children’s NGOs and international organisations in Aotearoa, Australia and Europe, held a senior role within Te Kāhui Tika Tangata the New Zealand Human Rights Commission, and practised as in-house legal counsel in the New Zealand government. She holds a doctorate in international children’s rights law from Leiden University, where she holds a Guest Lectureship, and has published internationally on a range of children's rights issues.
Claire was born and grew up amongst kauri and kererū in the Waitākere Ranges, went to school in West Auckland, and is of New Zealand and Indonesian heritage.
Dr Achmad has been Chief Children’s Commissioner since November 2023. She has been a visible advocate for all mokopuna, meeting them in their communities across the motu and carrying their voices, perspectives and experiences to decision-makers across Government and the community sector. Claire been a vocal advocate on a range of issues, including across the child and youth health sector, care and protection and youth justice issues, championing children, young people and their rights in a range of spaces and leading public discourse.
Claire has previously worked in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally in a wide range of areas relating to children's rights, including from legal, policy and practice perspectives. Previously, she was Chief Executive Officer of Social Service Providers Te Pai Ora o Aotearoa, progressing the aspirations and outcomes of children, rangatahi and whānau and community-based social services. Claire has worked for children’s NGOs and international organisations in Aotearoa, Australia and Europe, held a senior role within Te Kāhui Tika Tangata the New Zealand Human Rights Commission, and practised as in-house legal counsel in the New Zealand government. She holds a doctorate in international children’s rights law from Leiden University, where she holds a Guest Lectureship, and has published internationally on a range of children's rights issues.
Claire was born and grew up amongst kauri and kererū in the Waitākere Ranges, went to school in West Auckland, and is of New Zealand and Indonesian heritage.
