Meet the Devex Authors

Edward Kelley

Edward Kelley

Edward Kelley currently serves as director for the World Health Organization's patient safety program. In this capacity, Dr. Kelley coordinates both strategic management and external relations and business development for the world’s only global health care safety initiative, with responsibility for administration of the department and teams working in health care associated infection, technology, capacity building, reporting and learning and patient and community empowerment.
Edward Wilson

Edward Wilson

Edward Wilson is director of John Snow, Inc.’s Center for Health Logistics, where he oversees a portfolio of over 30 projects across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Wilson has over 30 years of experience working in low- and middle-income countries in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean providing both short- and long-term technical assistance in project management, capacity building, public health supply chain management, management information system design, and software.
Edward R. Carr

Edward R. Carr

Edward R. Carr is a professor and director of the international development, community, and environment department at Clark University, a center of transdisciplinary research bringing academic research and teaching to bear on the world’s most pressing problems. He also directs the Humanitarian Response and Development Lab in the George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark.
Edwine Barasa

Edwine Barasa

Edwine Barasa is the director of the Nairobi Programme of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and a visiting professor of health economics at the University of Oxford.
Edwin Elizabeth Thomas

Edwin Elizabeth Thomas

Edwin Elizabeth Thomas is a SheDecides 25x25 Generation of Change Young Leader. He is a project coordinator for a family planning research grant at the Center on Gender Equity and Health at the University of California, San Diego.
Efosa Ojomo

Efosa Ojomo

Efosa Ojomo is the director of the global prosperity research group at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, an innovation-focused think tank based in Boston, United States. Efosa is also on the faculty of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management where he teaches the course, “Entrepreneurship and Market Creation in Emerging Markets.”
Egon Weinmueller

Egon Weinmueller

Egon Weinmueller is vice president for global public health at BASF and is chairman of the Vector Control team at CropLife International. Weinmueller has over 30 years of experience in the crop protection industry and public health sector. He sits on the steering committee of the Stockholm Convention working group Global Alliance for Alternatives to DDT and many Roll Back Malaria working groups. BASF is a committed member of the public health community and is working closely with the World Health Organization, the private and public sectors to help find solutions to control mosquito-borne diseases.
Eileen Hoffman

Eileen Hoffman

Eileen Hoffman is the director of the Economic Growth and Trade Practice at Chemonics. She has more than 16 years of experience designing and implementing programs focused on private sector competitiveness, entrepreneurship, workforce development, and local economic development in more than 25 countries.
Eileen Hoffman

Eileen Hoffman

Eileen Hoffman is the director of the economic growth and trade practice at Chemonics where she leads industry engagement, enhances project performance, supports the development of competitive proposals, and fosters knowledge sharing and innovation in the areas of entrepreneurship and enterprise development, trade and regulatory reform, financial services, public financial management, and business enabling environment.
Einar Bjørgo

Einar Bjørgo

Einar Bjørgo is director of the division for satellite analysis and applied research at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. In that capacity he oversees the Operational Satellite Applications Program and strategic implementation of the 2030 Agenda Unit.