Physical Expertise

Public Prosecutor

Public prosecutor in Rio Grande do Sul - Brasil and Coordinator of CAOIJEFAM of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rio Grande Sul. 

Professor Associado

Jorge M. L. Ferreira, C.C. Nº07366753, Doctor of Social Work in the speciality of Social Work, Social Policies and Society. Associate Professor at ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute.

Psychic Expertise

Psychologist. PhD in Psychology (PUCRS) with internship on the department of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (U. Porto) at the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences - North Delegation, Portugal (INMLCF,I.P.). 

Professor and Researcher

Direção-Geral da Segurança Social

Senior Social Policy Adviser in the Directorate-General for Social Security

Chernin Professor of Social Welfare

Neil Gilbert is the Milton and Gertrude Chernin Professor of Social Welfare and Social Services. He served as the School's acting dean (1994-96) as well as chair of the doctoral program for a five-year period. He was also vice-chair and chair of the Berkeley Senate Faculty's Graduate Council.

Dr. Gilbert was a senior research fellow at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development in Geneva. He was a recipient of the Senior Fulbright Research Fellowship to study the changing structure of social services in the British welfare state. He has served as a visiting Fulbright lecturer at Tel Aviv University in Israel. He was awarded a second Fulbright Fellowship to study European Social Policy as a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at the University of Stockholm Social Research Institute. In 1993 and 1997, Dr. Gilbert served as a visiting scholar at the International Social Security Association in Geneva. In 2010 he was a visiting scholar at Oxford University Department of Social Policy and was a visiting professor at the University of Hamburg in 2016.

His numerous publications include 32 books and over 145 articles that have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Public Interest, Society, Commentary, The American Interest, The Atlantic and leading academic journals. Several of his books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Italian. His book, Capitalism and the Welfare State (Yale University Press) was a New York Times notable book and also reviewed in the New York Review of Books. His 1995 book, Welfare Justice: Restoring Social Equity, was published by Yale University Press and reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, Partisan Review and The Washington Times. In 2002, Transformation of the Welfare State, published by Oxford University Press was reviewed in the New York Review of Books, The New Republic and well-known academic journals. His 2008 book, A Mother's Work: How Feminism, the Market and Policy Shape Family Life (Yale University Press), was reviewed in the Atlantic Monthly. His most recent book is Never Enough: Capitalism and The Progressive Spirit (Oxford University Press 2017). Vanguard essays adapted from this work have been published in The American Interest and The Atlantic Magazine.

Dr. Gilbert was the US Delegate to Oxford University Press for Social Work and Sociology, served on the board of trustees of the Head-Royce School and is chairman of the board of Seneca Center. In 1987, he was awarded the University of Pittsburgh Bicentennial Medallion of Distinction. In 2000 he was voted the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare Teacher of the Year.

Pediatrician

University of Iowa - Pediatrician

Dr. Resmiye Oral is a clinical professor of pediatrics and director of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine’s Child Protection Program.

MD, Medicine, Ege University Medical School, Izmir, Turkey
Resident, Pediatrics, Dr. Behcet Uz State Teaching Hospital for Children, Izmir, Turkey
Extern, Neonatal Intensive Care, Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York
Fellow, Neonatology, Ege University Medical School
Fellow, Child Abuse and Neglect, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Resident, Pediatrics, Long Island College Hospital, New York, New York

Research Summary
Drug Exposed Children and Neonates - Forensic Pediatrics - Child Abuse and Neglect - Shaken Impact Syndrome - Trauma Informed Care and Family Well-being assessment practices - systems building in developing countries to prevent child abuse and neglect

Forensic Doctor and Professor at University of Porto

Medical expert in Legal Medicine. President of SPECAN. Full-Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (head of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences area) and at University Institute of Health Sciences. President of the Portuguese Society for the of Abused and Neglected Children. Full-Professor at University Institute of Health Sciences (CESPU) and Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (head of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences area). Author of multiple literature (books, books’ chapters and articles) about children and adolescents abuse. Head of the North Delegation of the Portuguese National Institute for Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (2001-2014). Representative of Portugal at the European Council of Legal Medicine. 

Vice Chairperson, Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology

Spyros Spyrou is Professor of Anthropology at European University Cyprus. His work has explored children’s identities (especially in relation to nationalism, migration, and borders) as well as questions of poverty, social exclusion, and vulnerability including ways of empowering children and young people to become knowledge producers through participatory approaches to research. In his most recent work, he has engaged with broader discussions on knowledge production in Childhood Studies. Spyros is currently working on a project funded by the A.G. Leventis Foundation and the Hellenic Observatory at the LSE researching the role of children and young people as political actors in light of their participation in climate action. He is the author of Disclosing Childhoods: Research and Knowledge Production for a Critical Childhood Studies (2018, Palgrave Macmillan) and co-editor of Reimagining Childhood Studies (2019, Bloomsbury) and Children and Borders (2014, Palgrave Macmillan). He is also Associate Editor of The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies, co-editor of the journal Childhood (SAGE), and co-editor of the book series Studies in Childhood and Youth (Palgrave).