Zorica Trikic leads different ISSA initiatives, including the Early Childhood Workforce Initiative, Embracing Diversity, Quality in ECEC, Supporting Families for Nurturing Care, and Playful Parenting. Zorica has over 30 years of international experience in the early years sector, working on programs and policy development focusing on accessibility of high-quality early childhood experiences for all children, especially the most marginalized ones – Roma and refugee and migrant children. She has extensive experience working on policy development and capacity building on different levels of early childhood systems and across sectors, with a particular focus on bridging educational, health, child protection, and welfare systems and services. In various capacities (author, co-author, editor, peer reviewer), she contributed to developing some of the foundational ECD guidance and knowledge products in the ISSA region. Zorica holds a Master’s degree in Education and Human Resources Development.