Rocio Cifuentes MBE is a Welsh social worker and academic, serving as the Children's Commissioner for Wales since 2022.

Born to political dissidents in Chile under the dictatorship of Pinochet, Cifuentes spent her childhood years as a refugee in Swansea.

She has said about her childhood that "There was at the time a larger Chilean community in Swansea where I grew up, so it [the experience of the Pinochet dictatorship] was around me and it certainly shaped my values and who I am.

[4] In January 2022, Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford announced that Cifuentes would become the Children's Commissioner for Wales at the end of her predecessor Sally Holland's tenure.

[4] She said in an interview shortly before starting that the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on children and young people would be one of her focus'.