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As Co-Founder and President of Devex, Raj has been profiled in the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Forbes, and the Washington Post , where Devex was called the Bloomberg of foreign aid. Beginning as a student project while he was doing graduate studies at the Harvard Kennedy School, today Devex is a social enterprise that operates the world’s most popular international development website ( www.devex.com ) and has offices in five countries and a global staff of 100. Raj and his colleagues at Devex are working to make foreign aid more efficient. Prior to Devex, he co-founded a successful internet start-up, SmartPortfolio.com, which was sold to TheStreet.com in 2000. Raj was also Principal and Political Director of Penn Schoen Berland, the political consulting firm. He was a strategist for campaigns in the U.S. and around the world, including presidential elections in Venezuela, Indonesia, Dominican Republic, Israel, and Ukraine (where he conducted exit polling during the Orange Revolution). Raj worked for the White House as a member of the national advance team for President Clinton. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a speaker and writer on issues of global development and social entrepreneurship, and appears as a guest analyst in the media. Raj graduated from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, speaks Spanish, and has worked, studied, and traveled in more than 50 countries. He spent part of his childhood in Kerala, India, where he first became interested in international development, and now lives in Washington, DC with his wife Maria Teresa Kumar.
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Devex Co-Founder and Senior Partner Kami Dar spearheads the development of industry-leading services for Devex, drawing from experience in development consulting and information technology. Kami began his career as a consultant with American Management Systems, where he worked on deployment and training for a large-scale procurement system used by the U.S. government. As an international consultant, he later specialized in implementing management solutions for development programs. In that capacity, Kami designed and implemented a cutting-edge management system for the AMIR program in Jordan, a $58 million development project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. His success in bringing efficiencies to this project led him to co-found Devex in order to create similar efficiencies across the industry. Kami was named Dean's Fellow by Harvard University's international development program and holds a bachelor’s in science, technology and international affairs from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He speaks Farsi and French and heads up the Devex office in Barcelona.
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Partner Jason McNaboe creates the marketing and branding strategy of Devex. Before joining the organization as a founding member, he was senior project manager at New York Digital Design (NYD2), a strategic communications boutique. At NYD2, Jason developed marketing and communications strategies for Fortune 500 corporations, nonprofit organizations, and startup Internet companies. His clients included Lucent Technologies, Pfizer Inc., Fiduciary Trust Company International, and World Hunger Year Inc. Jason has also directed projects with companies such as Oracle Corp. and eBay Inc. He holds a bachelor’s in cultural studies from McGill University.
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As a Devex founding member, Partner Alan Robbins has helped expand the firm's membership to include more than 275 of the world's leading international development firms and non-governmental organizations. Alan is a former deputy director of the Washington International Business Council, the information and advisory service for major multinational corporations such as the ABB Group, Microsoft Corp., Exxon Mobil Corp., IBM Corp. and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is also former deputy director of the nonprofit Executive Council on Diplomacy, an organization founded at the request of the U.S. Secretary of State in 1962 to provide private-sector outreach to the international diplomatic community in the United States. Alan holds a master’s in international affairs (international economics) from George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs and a bachelor’s in political science and history from Rutgers University.
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Jamie Bay manages the team that supports the Devex membership of more than 325 Executive Member organizations and 400 Small Business Member organizations globally. Before joining the company in 2008, she completed her master's degree in conflict analysis and resolution at George Mason University. Prior to that, she spent nearly three years as marketing associate and health care consultant for the Advisory Board Co. Jamie also served as an intern in the U.S. State Department's Office of South Central Europe. She holds a bachelor's degree in government from the College of William & Mary.
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As Editor, Rolf Rosenkranz helps to shape the Devex News & Analysis page into the Web's prime international development information hub. He manages 'The Day in Development' blog and oversees a talented team of reporters working out of Devex offices in Barcelona, Tokyo and Manila, as well as a host of freelancers and bloggers located around the globe. Before joining Devex in early 2008, Rolf was managing editor at Inside Health Policy, a subscription-based service covering health policy news and trends in the U.S. capital as well as the states. He has reported from Africa for the Johannesburg-based International News Network, as well as the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, a German daily. Rolf holds a master's degree from the Missouri School of Journalism.
Senior Research Manager and Director, Manila Office
Noel Salazar recruits, trains and manages more than 60 staff in the Devex Manila office. He also conducts and oversees research on projects funded by the ADB, World Bank, and other international development agencies. Noel has been a development practitioner for 20 years and has experience working for both local and international non-governmental organizations. He was a member of the editorial board of one of the oldest and leading human rights organizations in the Philippines. From 1990 to 1997, he was based in Spain and Tunisia as a member of the international staff of El Taller, an international NGO. At El Taller, Noel oversaw membership drives, administered international workshops and training courses, and coordinated publications in English, French and Spanish. Noel also worked as a consultant for Governance and Local Democracy, a project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and implemented in the Philippines by Associates in Rural Development. Noel holds a bachelor’s in social work from the University of the Philippines.
Managing Director, Japan Office
Kotaro Takahashi established the Devex Japan office in July 2006. As managing director, he assists Japan's leading international development companies in accessing donor funding and consultants from outside Japan, bringing greater efficiency to Japan's international development industry. Prior to joining Devex, Kotaro was an international development official in the Japanese government for more than 10 years. Working for the Japan International Cooperation Agency from 1996 to 2006, he was responsible for aid planning, technical assistance project formulation, management, and evaluation in the area of economic policy, finance, legal and judicial reform and governance, mainly in Southeast Asian countries. He also served as an official on assignment in the Economic Cooperation Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with responsibility for Japan's aid policy in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2001, he developed a business plan for the expansion of Devex to Japan while working as a summer associate for the company. He holds two master's degrees, one in economics from the University of Tokyo, and another in public administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Director, Global Recruiting Services
Kate oversees Devex recruiting services, including DevHire, Candidate Sourcing Service, job postings and career fairs. Prior to joining Devex, Kate was a recruitment officer with International Relief and Development, an international non-governmental organization, where she led proposal recruitment for the U.S. Agency for International Development, United Nations, Australian Government Overseas Aid Program and other donor-funded development initiatives. Earlier, she was a recruiter and deputy program manager for Checchi and Co. Consulting Inc., where she managed the recruitment for the Evaluation IQC and Afghanistan programs. With Bowne Global Solutions, Kate recruited interpreters in more than 300 languages for U.S. immigration courts and international conferences. Kate holds a bachelor's in Latin American studies from the University of Texas in Austin. She has lived in Argentina, Costa Rica and Mexico and speaks Spanish.
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