Peter Crowley has a varied and extensive background in international development, including in some of the most challenging country contexts. From his professional beginnings as a teacher in Sudan in 1977, he went on to set up and manage a program for Voluntary Services Overseas in the south of the country. In 1983, he became head of the VSO program in Nepal. Between 1985 and 1990, Peter was the UNESCO chief technical adviser on a major education program in the far-west of Nepal. During the following eight years, he served as head of Save the Children U.K.’s South Asia regional office, before moving to Geneva to lead efforts to promote closer alignment and collaboration among the members of the International Save the Children Alliance. Since joining UNICEF in 1998, Peter has served in a number of senior positions, including in the areas of evaluation, policy and planning, emergency operations and public partnerships, as director of the program in South Sudan, and as country representative in Afghanistan. In September 2013 he returned to New York to head the UNICEF polio team.