Dr maria NEOPHYTOU

Trustee

Dr Maria Neophytou is Director of Strategy and Knowledge at the NSPCC, joining in 2020 from Impetus, where she was Acting CEO. 

Maria has worked on strategy, public policy and research in the children’s sector for over ten years, exploring how we can harness evidence in aid of social change.

Prior to that, she worked as a public servant in the European Parliament and for the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

She gained her PhD at Cambridge University, where her research was on gender equality and international relations.