Afrooz Kaviani Johnson is a Child Protection Specialist for UNICEF Programme Division in New York, responsible for the thematic area of protecting children online. She manages global partnerships and programmes and policy and advocacy work at UNICEF Headquarters and provides support to UNICEF country teams around the world to introduce and improve responses to technology-facilitated violence against children. Afrooz has over a decade of experience in managing child protection programmes in Eastern and Southern Africa, South East Asia, and the Pacific. Earlier in her career, Afrooz worked as a lawyer in
Australia. She holds a Juris Doctor and Master of Social Science in International Development and is currently an external PhD candidate of Leiden Law School of Leiden
University.