Meet the Devex Authors

Diana Schoder

Diana Schoder

Diana Schoder is a research associate in global health, economics, and development at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. She is also the co-chair of the Energy and Environment Discussion Group of Young Professionals in Foreign Policy, and she previously served as the economics editorial fellow at the American Economic Association.
Diana Spehar

Diana Spehar

Diana Spehar is Sky Data’s data ethics lead working on tools that allow everyone at Sky to use data in an ethical manner. She is also co-chair of the Digital Ethics Network, an employee-led group which promotes discussion around ethical matters. Working as an advocacy manager for GSMA, Diana led the organization’s engagement with various U.N. agencies, mobile operators, and regulators, and was invited to speak at the U.N. panel about the role of sociocultural factors in addressing the digital gender divide.
Diana Westfalia Morán Puente

Diana Westfalia Morán Puente

Dr. Diana Westfalia Morán Puente is sustainability manager for BASF SE’s agricultural solutions division in Germany. She joined BASF in 2012, working as laboratory leader of application technology until 2015, when she moved into sustainability. She holds a Ph.D. in horticulture and has built her career around applying her knowledge and experience to solve problems and find opportunities in the field of crop protection.
Diane Abbott

Diane Abbott

Diane Abbott is a member of the British parliament and is the shadow secretary of state for international development. In her role as shadow secretary, Diane's three key priorities are the global response to refugees and migrants, gender and development, and transparency and scrutiny in aid expenditure.
Diane Gashumba

Diane Gashumba

Diane Gashumba is the minister of health in the Republic of Rwanda and has been since October 4, 2016. Prior to this position, she served as the minister of gender and family promotion from March 29, 2016. Gashumba is a pediatrician by profession bringing 17 years' experience in global maternal, newborn and child health with focus to gender issues. She worked with USAID-funded Rwanda Family Health Project as senior team leader for quality and as deputy chief of party focusing on improving the quality of and access to services in maternal, child and newborn health, family planning, reproductive health, HIV, nutrition, malaria and gender equality.
Dick Tinsley

Dick Tinsley

Richard Tinsley is an agronomist and soil scientist with more than 30 years of international experience working with smallholder communities in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He is the author of "Developing Smallholder Agriculture: A Global Perspective," manages the website smallholderagriculture.com and is particularly interested in calorie energy balance and the cooperative business model.
Didier Leroy

Didier Leroy

Didier Leroy is a senior director of drug discovery at Medicines for Malaria Venture, where he leads biological activities and drug discovery strategies. Didier leads 15 projects for MMV worldwide, interacting with more than 80 scientists from public and private organizations. A molecular pharmacologist/biologist, he joined the MMV drug discovery team in 2009 from Merck-Serono International.
Diederik Kramers

Diederik Kramers

Diederik Kramers is a freelance correspondent in Brussels covering EU and NATO affairs. A former spokesperson and communications officer for UNICEF and UNHCR, he previously worked as foreign desk and Eastern Europe editor for the Dutch press agency ANP and as editor-in-chief of the Dutch quarterly Ukraine Magazine.
Diederik  Kramers

Diederik Kramers

Diederik Kramers is a freelance correspondent in Brussels covering EU and NATO affairs. A former spokesperson and communications officer for UNICEF and UNHCR, he previously worked as foreign desk and Eastern Europe editor for the Dutch press agency ANP and as editor-in-chief of the Dutch quarterly Ukraine Magazine.
Diego Arguedas Ortiz

Diego Arguedas Ortiz

Diego Arguedas Ortiz is a climate journalist from Costa Rica. He has covered climate change since 2013 and is currently the associate director of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, a program at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University. His work has appeared in BBC Future, MIT Technology Review, Vice, BBC Culture, and Anthropocene, among other outlets. In 2015, he led the creation of Ojo al Clima, Central America's first climate news outlet, where he stayed as editor until 2019. His work includes six U.N. Climate Conferences, the Panama Papers international collaboration in 2016, and on-the-ground reporting from a dozen countries.