Meet the Devex Authors

Daniel Ben Yehuda

Daniel Ben Yehuda

Daniel Ben Yehuda is co-organizer of the Israeli Designed International Development 2014. He is also deputy director of the Pears Program on Innovation and International Development at Tel Aviv University’s Hartog School of Government and Policy.
Daniele Dionisio

Daniele Dionisio

Daniele Dionisio is a member of the European Parliament Working Group on Innovation, Access to Medicines and Poverty-Related Diseases, and a reference advisor on medicines for developing countries for the Italian Society for Infectious and Tropical Diseases. He is the former director of the Pistoia Hospital’s infectious disease division, and serves as a member of the Italian Global Health Watch. His research focuses on equitable access to medicines for communicable diseases in resource-limited countries; the views expressed in his writing are his own.
Danielle Abraham

Danielle Abraham

Danielle Abraham is co-organizer of the Israeli Designed International Development 2014. She is also policy adviser to the head of the Policy Planning and External Relations Division of MASHAV, the Israel Agency for International Cooperation.
Danielle Lilly

Danielle Lilly

Danielle Lilly is a senior policy adviser at ChildFund International. She leads the organization’s U.S. government and global advocacy efforts related to online sexual exploitation and abuse of children, or OSEAC, violence against children, early childhood development and adolescent girls. She is also leading a new initiative to build greater consensus, collaboration, and coordination between U.S.-based NGOs and INGOs on OSEAC-related advocacy efforts.
Danielle Sessa

Danielle Sessa

Danielle Sessa is a communications professional with a background in political science and global health. She works to find new and innovative ways to spread the word about the need for health technologies accessible to all.
Danil Mikhailov

Danil Mikhailov

Danil Mikhailov is the executive director of data.org. He has over 20 years of experience setting up multiple startups and leading work across a range of diverse sectors, always investigating and innovating in the space where technology, culture, and society converge. Prior to data.org, Danil worked at Wellcome. He also founded and chaired the Digital Strategy Forum for Science, Art, and Culture, in the United Kingdom. Danil holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Communications from the University of Brunel.
Danny Sriskandarajah

Danny Sriskandarajah

Danny Sriskandarajah became chief executive of Oxfam GB in January 2019. Prior to that he led CIVICUS, the global alliance of civil society organisations, and was director general of the Royal Commonwealth Society.
Daouda Sembene

Daouda Sembene

Daouda Sembene is the founder of AfriCatalyst and a former executive director at the International Monetary Fund.