Meet the Devex Authors

Emily Cabon

Emily Cabon

Emily Cabon is a youth ambassador with the ONE Campaign who lives in London and has just turned 23. She has been heavily involved in the ONE Vote 2014 campaign, which aims to lobby MEPs to commit to keeping the EU’s pro-development agenda on track. She attended the University of Birmingham after studying philosophy.
Emily Coppel

Emily Coppel

Emily Coppel is the communications lead at BRAC USA, an independent affiliate of BRAC based in New York City. She oversees outreach, communications, and public fundraising to garner support for BRAC in North America. Emily has a background in multimedia journalism and nonprofit program management for youth education programs in New York and Johannesburg. Emily’s work has been featured in the Mail and Guardian, the Guardian, KBIA radio (an NPR affiliate), NextBillion, and contributed to the Harvard Business Review. She is passionate about finding engaging ways to tell stories that empower disadvantaged communities.
Emily Esplen

Emily Esplen

Emily Esplen leads the work on gender equality and women’s rights at the OECD’s Development Cooperation Directorate.
Emily Gabor

Emily Gabor

Emily Gabor works at Accountability Counsel as a postgraduate policy fellow. She holds a J.D. from William and Mary Law School, and dual bachelor’s degrees in economics and political science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Gabor has volunteered in Russia, Ghana, and Uganda, including researching customary land rights and working to improve legal aid services on USAID projects.
Emily Kaine

Emily Kaine

Dr. Emily Kaine is senior vice president of global health for USP and provides vision, strategic leadership, and operational focus to USP’s global public health team. In this role, Dr. Kaine also rallies support for the organization’s growing portfolio of programs and initiatives aimed at addressing global health challenges through technical training, regulatory assistance, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and capacity building. She has over ten years of strategic planning and leadership experience in healthcare and pharmaceuticals. Before assuming her current role, Dr. Kaine led USP’s Strategy and Business Development division for two years.
Emily Keyes

Emily Keyes

Emily Keyes is a research associate for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health at FHI 360. Her expertise is in quantitative and qualitative research, health facility assessments, program evaluation, and operations and implementation research. Emily is skilled in research design and methodology, quantitative and qualitative analysis, spatial analysis, data management and quality assurance, training and technical writing.
Emily Rees

Emily Rees

Emily Rees is the president and CEO of CropLife International. Spearheading the association’s ambition to bring workable solutions to increase food security, tackle climate change, and protect biodiversity, Emily leads the organization in its regulatory and policy-driven dialogues. Through advancing science-based approaches to regulation and fair and equitable global trading rules, Emily helps bring together diverse partners with cutting-edge research and development to effect positive change. Emily joined CropLife International with an extensive pedigree in EU affairs and economic diplomacy. She held posts as a senior fellow at the European Centre for International Political Economy and as managing director of Trade Strategies.
Emily Tavoulareas

Emily Tavoulareas

Evagelia Emily Tavoulareas is a contributor to Devex and Ashoka’s Changemakers. She works at the intersection of digital media, international development and social entrepreneurship. Evagelia is a digital communications strategist with a focus on content creation, partnership-building, and community management in the online space.
Emily Wilkinson

Emily Wilkinson

Dr. Emily Wilkinson is a senior research fellow at global development think tank ODI and chief scientific adviser to the Climate Resilience Execution Agency for Dominica. She has worked for 20 years as a researcher, analyst, lecturer, and adviser to governments across Latin America and the Caribbean, specializing in disaster and climate risk governance.
Emily Bell Tyree

Emily Bell Tyree

Emily Bell Tyree is associate director of communications at Action Against Hunger, a nonprofit global humanitarian organization that is innovating solutions, advocating for change, and reaching 24 million people every year with proven hunger prevention and treatment programs. Emily has worked in communications and advocacy for over 20 years — primarily focused on global health — and holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale and a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton.