May 19, 2025

SOS Children's Villages Completes Global Ombuds Program

Over the past year, the Austria-based international development organization has finished the hiring for its global Ombuds program. Appointed as the Global Ombuds in May 2024, Pierre Cazenave oversees a team of Regional Ombuds, who coordinate National Ombuds located at SOS facilities around the world. Cazenave brings a decade of child advocacy to the role, most recently as s senior anti-trafficking specialist with the International Center for Migration Policy Development. His team of Regional Ombuds include:
  • Harleen Walia for Asia 
  • Nandisa Tilayi for Eastern & Southern Africa 
  • Magela Luksic for Latin America & the Caribbean 
  • Sambieni Bienvenu for West, Central & North Africa 
Oversight of the Ombuds Office for SOS Children's Villages is provided by a board of international experts, including: 
  • Katherine Greenwood, CO-OP (Board Chair), USA 
  • Cornelia Zelter, Germany 
  • Jaap Doek, Netherlands 
  • Benyam Dawit Mezmur, Ethopia 
  • Nicholas Diehl, USA 
  • Nora Galer, Argentina 
  • Serah Mungai, Kenya 

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