Meet the Devex Authors

Erfan Ali

Erfan Ali

Dr. Erfan Ali is the Regional Representative of UN-Habitat’s Regional Office for the Arab States since May 2019. Prior to that, he served as the Senior Human Settlements Officer and Deputy Regional Director for the Regional Office for the Arab States. From 2013 to 2018, he was the Head of UN-Habitat Iraq Country Programme.
Eric Bjornlund

Eric Bjornlund

Eric Bjornlund is a lawyer and is co-founder and president of Democracy International. He is also adjunct professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University, where he teaches in the graduate program in democracy and governance; serves as secretary and board member of the Advancing Democratic Elections and Political Transitions consortium; and by appointment of the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development serves as a member of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid. At Democracy International, Mr. Bjornlund oversees a rapidly growing organization with more than 200 full-time, professional staff members.
Eric Gutierrez

Eric Gutierrez

Eric Gutierrez is the editor of a new Christian Aid report, "Drugs and Illicit Practices, Assessing Their Impact on Development and Governance," which examines four countries where an increasingly active drugs trade has begun to affect development.
Eric Mukoya

Eric Mukoya

Eric Mukoya is a qualified lawyer, newspaper columnist, and the former executive director of the Undugu Society of Kenya. He is now heading up the International Commission of Jurists - Kenyan Section. He has over two decades of global experience in nonprofits.
Eric Pelofsky

Eric Pelofsky

Eric Pelofsky is vice president of global economic recovery at The Rockefeller Foundation and a former special assistant to former U.S. President Barack Obama.
Eric Postel

Eric Postel

Eric G. Postel has more than 25 years of pioneering development finance experience. As an Associate Administrator at USAID 2011-2017 he was extensively engaged in accelerating USAID's work with the private sector including via DCA.
Eric Reading

Eric Reading

Eric Reading started working for Chemonics in 1994. He currently serves as executive vice president. Previously, he was senior vice president of two different divisions overseeing activities with Afghanistan, the Palestinian Authority, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Yemen and Jordan. He also worked in Kosovo and Egypt as chief of party and technical adviser for institutional strengthening programs.
Eric Usher

Eric Usher

Eric Usher brings over 20 years of experience in the low carbon sectors, spanning commercialization of technology in Canada, an entrepreneurial venture in Morocco, and financial sector development across emerging markets. In 2014, he worked closely with UNEP FI in supporting the UN Secretary General’s Climate Summit in New York and specifically the launch of the Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition.
Erica Belanger

Erica Belanger

Erica Belanger is an advocacy adviser at the International Planned Parenthood Federation, leading on issues related to family planning advocacy. She has over 10 years' experience in international development, and has been working to increase financial and political support for sexual and reproductive health and rights for the past eight years. She is an experienced advocate and fundraiser in the areas of peace building and sexual and reproductive health and rights, and successfully mobilized over $85 million to support SRHR country programming. Currently, she works in partnership with Advance Family Planning to link global policy trends and opportunities to national and subnational level advocacy interventions. She holds an undergraduate degree in political science and international development studies from McGill University, and a master of arts in peace and conflict studies.
Eric A. Friedman

Eric A. Friedman

Eric A. Friedman is the global health justice scholar at the Georgetown University Law Center's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law in Washington. He works on global health and human rights projects and scholarship, with a focus on equity, empowerment, and accountability. Previously, Eric was senior global health policy adviser at Physicians for Human Rights.