Georgette Mulheir
British social worker
Georgette Mulheir was the chief executive of Lumos, an international non-governmental organisation, founded in 2005 by J. K. Rowling to end the institutionalisation of orphaned children throughout the world, from 2011 to 2019. Her model of deinstitutionalisation, pioneered since 1993, has been followed in many countries across Eastern and central Europe.
Biography
Mulheir was born in Oldham in 1968. She has two brothers and a sister. Her father was a carpenter and her mother was a residential social worker. After studying music at Sheffield University, she worked for Sheffield Social Services from 1991 in a mother and baby unit. In 1993, she moved to Romania to set up the first mother and baby unit in Bucharest, and since then she has pioneered a model of deinstitutionalisation which is now followed in many countries across Central and Eastern Europe. Between 1993 and 2015, the number of children in Romanian orphanages has been reduced from 200,000 to 20,000.
In 2007, she was appointed operations director of Lumos, becoming chief executive in 2011. She was a member of the Ad Hoc Expert Group which produced a report on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care for the European Commission in 2009.
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