Meet the Devex Authors

Einar Steensnæs

Einar Steensnæs

Einar Steensnæs is the co-founder of the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights. Prior to that he was a former minister and member of the Norwegian parliament and the vice president of the UNESCO Executive Board.
Ekaterina Gorokhova

Ekaterina Gorokhova

Ekaterina Gorokhova is a strategic partner for the United Nations Young Professionals Program, where she compiles materials, prepares interviews and focuses on helping young people worldwide build their own path to the United Nations.
Elaine Ireland

Elaine Ireland

Elaine joined Sightsavers as head of policy in 2010. She is responsible for coordinating all the activities of the policy team to ensure that Sightsavers and the issues that it is advocating for are heard by donors and decision-makers. This includes agencies such as the U.K. Department for International Development, the European Commission, U.N. agencies and the World Health Organization.
Eleanor Ross

Eleanor Ross

Eleanor Ross is a freelance journalist based in London. She specializes in humanitarian, tech and travel writing. She writes for the Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Broadly and Sunday Times, among others.
Elena Bagnera

Elena Bagnera

Elena Bagnera, senior analyst at CPI in Washington D.C., focuses on international financial architecture reform, notably through the FiCS Lab. Her work emphasizes the role of public financial institutions in mobilizing private capital. Elena has authored papers on multilateral development banks' collaboration with national development banks and their role in advancing urban climate finance.
Elena Bonfiglioli

Elena Bonfiglioli

Elena Bonfiglioli is the managing director for health and life sciences Europe, Middle East, and Africa at Microsoft. She has been working in the health sector for more than 15 years, first in health policy at the EU level and then as a regional business leader in the global health care team. In July 2017, Elena was elected to the HIMSS Europe Governing Council, and in 2020 she was nominated as one of the top 50 AI Innovators by Intelligent Health. Bonfiglioli is one of the founding members of the Holomedicine Association.
Elena Lazutkaite

Elena Lazutkaite

Elena Lazutkaite is a TMG research associate focusing on agriculture, environmental sustainability, and transboundary pests and diseases amid the climate crisis.
Elena L.  Pasquini

Elena L. Pasquini

Elena Pasquini covers the development work of the European Union as well as various U.N. food and agricultural agencies for Devex News. Based in Rome, she also reports on Italy's aid reforms and attends the European Development Days and other events across Europe. She has interviewed top international development officials, including European Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs. Elena has contributed to Italian and international magazines, newspapers and news portals since 1995.
Eleonora Mura

Eleonora Mura

Eleonora Mura works as program officer at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance coordinating the Inter-Regional Dialogue on Democracy. Prior to working at International IDEA, Eleonora completed multiple assignments in the United Nation peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara and the United Nations Volunteers HQ in Bonn. She also collaborated with several NGOs in central and eastern Europe in support of minorities and marginalized groups.
Elhadj As Sy

Elhadj As Sy

Elhadj As Sy is the chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation. Prior to that, Sy assumed the role of secretary-general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. He has extensive experience in leadership roles in the humanitarian sector, having previously served at a senior level with UNICEF, UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and other agencies for more than 25 years.