Sabine Saliba is Eurochild’s Secretary-General. She has worked on children’s rights, armed conflict, peacebuilding and human rights. Human rights have been a focus of hers for many years, in Europe, the Middle East and internationally.  

Viacheslav Samonov is a lawyer and human rights defender working with various NGOs in Russia. He previously worked for the Nochlezhka charity on homelessness and statelessness of former USSR citizens. He is a former member of the public monitoring commission in St Petersburg, supervising conditions in detention centres. He also focuses on civil and LGBT+ rights, citizenship and discrimination issues. 

Cesár Sampson is an Austrian singer who represented his country at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest with ‘Nobody but You’.