Peter Dalglish

Dalglish in January 2012

Born Peter John Dalglish

May 20, 1957 (age 62)

London, Ontario

Alma mater Stanford University, Dalhousie University

Occupation Senior Urban Advisor to the World Health

Organization Liberia, Africa
Founder of Street Kids International

Employer World Health Organization

Notable The Courage of Children: My Life with the

work World's Poorest Kids
 Peter Dalglish CM (born May 20, 1957), is the Canadian founder of the Street Kids
International charity and a convicted sex offender . Until 2015, he was the Country Representative
for UN-Habitat in Afghanistan. He is currently in prison in Nepal for nine years, being convicted of
sexually assaulting two young boys. He denies this charge.

Contents

 1Education
 2Work
 3Recognition
 4Child rape conviction
 5References

Education[edit]
Dalglish was born in London, Ontario and attended Upper Canada College in Toronto. He graduated
from Stanford University and then from Dalhousie Law School in 1983. Dalglish was called to the
Bar in 1985.[1]

Work[edit]
Dalglish organized an airlift of food and medical supplies from Canada to Ethiopia in December
1984. The experience convinced him to leave his law career and return to Africa to work with poor
children. Dalglish joined the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) to work in Darfur, where
he organized humanitarian relief for women and children displaced by severe drought and famine. [2]
In 1986, Dalglish was reassigned to run the World Food Programme Road Transportation Operation
in Khartoum. Dalglish convinced a Belgian technical training school to provide auto mechanic
training to street children, funded by Bob Geldof of Band Aid.[3]
In 1986, Dalglish set up a bicycle courier service run entirely by street children in Khartoum. With
several borrowed bikes, he established Street Kids International. The initial profits enabled the
organization to purchase more bikes.[4]
Dalglish served for some time as executive secretary to Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa, which
helps out-of-work Canadian youth.[5] In 1994, Dalglish was appointed as the first director of Youth
Service Canada, the Government of Canada's civilian volunteer youth corps. In 2002 Dalglish was
selected as the chief technical adviser for the UN's child labour program in Nepal. [6] In this role, he
focused on three initiatives: return children from orphanages to their families; treat children affected
by HIV/AIDS, and apprenticeship training.[5]
In the late 1980s, Dalglish through Street Kids International arranged to rehabilitate and equip
children's schools in southern Sudan as part of Operation Lifeline and hired Emma McCune to run
the project.[7] Between 2006 and 2010, Dalglish served as the executive director of the South Asia
Children's Fund, which promotes education for disadvantaged children in the region. [8]
Dalglish served as Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Party for UN-
Habitat in Kabul, Afghanistan October 2010–December 2014. In December 2014, he became Chief
of Party until the end of his mission in July 2015. [8] Following his Afghanistan mission, Dalglish joined
the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response.[9]