Dr Gelly Aroni is Head of the Directorate for the Protection of Unaccompanied Minors at the General Secretariat for Vulnerable Persons and Institutional Protection, Ministry of Migration and Asylum, Greece. Her work focuses on strengthening the protection and care of unaccompanied children and promoting their access to education, social inclusion and meaningful pathways towards adulthood, with particular emphasis on inter-institutional cooperation and coordinated policy responses. Before joining the Ministry of Migration and Asylum, she was actively involved in the establishment and subsequently headed the Department for the Coordination and Monitoring of Refugee Education at the Greek Ministry of Education. She has longstanding experience in intercultural education, Human Rights Education and Education for Democratic Citizenship and has worked extensively as an expert and trainer with the Council of Europe and the European Wergeland Centre. She currently teaches in the Joint MA Programme “Identity, Education and Competences for Democratic Culture” at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, bringing together her experience in public policy, child protection and education.