Meet the Devex Authors

Diana Ohlbaum

Diana Ohlbaum

Ohlbaum is an independent consultant, an executive committee member of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network and a principal of Turner4D, a strategic communications firm. She has served as senior associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a senior professional staff member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and a deputy director of the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of Transition Initiatives.
Diana Roach

Diana Roach

Diana Roach, senior director of volunteer programs, has over 12 years of experience recruiting an annual average of 200 volunteer assignments. Her previous experience includes being director of marketing for an agriculture commodity group in Ohio. For the past eight years, Diana has managed ACDI/VOCA’s volunteer programs and pursued new business opportunities for volunteer activities from both USAID and nongovernmental funding sources. She manages ACDI/VOCA's implementation of the Mars Ambassador Program and heads the effort to increase the VOCA Fund for the support of additional volunteer-related initiatives around the world.
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.