Meet the Devex Authors

Alex Bernhardt

Alex Bernhardt

Alex Bernhardt is the founder and manager of Guy Carpenter's GC Micro Risk Solutions group. Under his direction, GC Micro now manages microreinsurance programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America. He also leads a multistakeholder project team that develops an index-based microreinsurance for small-holder farmers in Mozambique. He regularly contributes content to industry publications and speaks at international events.
Alex Carle

Alex Carle

Alex Carle is the director of International Programmes & Partnerships at the British Red Cross, where she's worked since 2013. She has a master's in international affairs and diplomacy as well as child psychology. She started out as a child protection specialist in New Zealand working with recidivist youth offenders. She then worked for over 10 years with nongovernment organizations living in contexts such as Haiti, Dominican Republic, Iraq, Syria, Occupied Palestinian Territories, and Kenya for over 10 years.
Alex Dehgan

Alex Dehgan

Alex Dehgan is the CEO at Conservation X Labs. He is also a professor of the practice of sustainability at Arizona State University. Alex previously served as the chief scientist of USAID, and created the agency’s DARPA for Development, and worked in multiple positions in the Office of the Secretary at the State Department. Alex was also the founding country director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Afghanistan program and helped create Afghanistan’s first national park.
Alex Farley

Alex Farley

Alex Farley joined Publish What You Fund as a project manager in April 2020. She is responsible for coordinating advocacy, research, and donor engagement to improve the transparency of aid and development finance for gender equality and women’s economic justice.
Alex Farrington

Alex Farrington

Alex Farrington is head of Europe, Middle East, and Africa partnerships at Lightful. He is a strategic partnerships specialist who has worked across the humanitarian, international development, and the United Kingdom third sector. Before joining Lightful, he worked for five years with the Humanitarian Leadership Academy, the Malaria Consortium, the Living Earth Foundation, and Changemakers, now The Foyer Federation, as well as co-founding a social enterprise in Sierra Leone.
Alex Green

Alex Green

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Alex Jacobs

Alex Jacobs

Alex Jacobs is director for program quality at Plan International. With 20 years of experience in NGOs, including Oxfam and Mango, Jacobs has carried out countless evaluations of humanitarian programs and contributed to leading international initiatives, and has been a visiting fellow at Oxford and Duke Universities.
Alex Kalomparis

Alex Kalomparis

Alex Kalomparis is the vice president of public affairs at Gilead Sciences. He is responsible for all communications and patient advocacy activities across Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Kalomparis has held senior communication roles with a number of consumer and pharmaceutical companies including Unilever, Rolls Royce, Novartis, Roche, Astrazeneca, and GlaxoSmithKline.
Alex MacGillivray

Alex MacGillivray

Alex MacGillivray is director of development impact at CDC, the U.K.’s development finance institution. His work involves measuring how CDC meets its missions to build businesses and create jobs in Africa and South Asia. A recent study he worked on looked at the link between power, economic growth and job creation. Alex's background is in sustainable development, competitiveness and business strategy. Before joining CDC, he held senior positions at AccountAbility and the New Economics Foundation, and has worked with a broad range of businesses, government and nonprofits.
Alex Mihnovits

Alex Mihnovits

Alex Mihnovits is the data programme officer for HelpAge International, responsible for the Global AgeWatch and data programme. Alex holds a master’s degree in development economics from the University of Gothenburg.