Meet the Devex Authors

E. Wayne Holden

E. Wayne Holden

E. Wayne Holden became RTI International’s fourth president and chief executive officer in 2012. He is a distinguished researcher and clinical psychologist with more than 27 years of professional experience. He joined RTI as executive vice president of social and statistical sciences in 2005, overseeing the organization’s largest unit.
Ezekiel Carlo Orlina

Ezekiel Carlo Orlina

Ezekiel is a Senior Development Analyst and Team Leader at Devex. His primary role is monitoring and reporting on project opportunities and trends of leading multilateral and bilateral donor agencies. A graduate of Ateneo de Manila University with a degree in Political Science, Ezekiel has extensive global development research experience having also worked at the World Youth Alliance, Asia and the Pacific (WYAAP).
Ezequiel Reficco

Ezequiel Reficco

Ezequiel Reficco, PhD, is a professor of strategy at the Universidad de Los Andes School of Management in Colombia. His research and consulting is focused on social entrepreneurship and on inclusive business models that target the base of the pyramid.
Fabian Flues

Fabian Flues

Fabian Flues works as a trade and investment campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe in Brussels. His focus is the impact of the EU's trade policy and in particular of investor-state dispute settlement on the environment.
Fabian Hamilton

Fabian Hamilton

Fabian Hamilton has been the Labour MP for Leeds North East since 1997 and was re-elected to Parliament on May 7 with an increased majority. He served for 10 years on the Foreign Affairs Committee and then, since 2013, on the International Development Committee which monitors the work of DfID. For the past two years he has chaired the committee responsible for overseeing the Independent Commission on Aid Impact.
Fabien Cousteau

Fabien Cousteau

With a degree in environmental economics from Boston University, aquatic filmmaker and oceanographic explorer Fabien Cousteau has refined a public policy platform grounded by his strong belief that environmental discipline can be the basis for innovative solutions that strike a balance between global environmental problems and the realities of market economies. In 2010, he launched Plant A Fish, a nonprofit organization designed to help communities restore their local water ecosystems.
Fabio Gomes

Fabio Gomes

Dr. Fabio Gomes is the regional advisor on nutrition and physical activity at the Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization. He is a nutritionist with a master's in population studies and social research and a Ph.D. in public health. He worked as a senior officer at the Ministry of Health in Brazil for 10 years developing strategies to promote healthy eating practices in multiple settings; mobilizing regulatory measures to reduce the demand for unhealthy products; and protecting public policies on health, food, and nutrition from opposing commercial actors.
Fabio Leippert

Fabio Leippert

Fabio Leippert is working on issues relating to agriculture and climate change in Biovision’s policy and advocacy division. As a qualified biologist and development specialist, he is particularly interested in the dynamics between biodiversity, climate change, and agricultural development, as well as a holistic, sustainable approach to agriculture.
Fadzai Chitiyo

Fadzai Chitiyo

Fadzai Chitiyo is a strategy consultant at Dalberg, with broad development sector expertise across agriculture, financial inclusion, health care, mobile for development, impact investing, and inclusive business growth. She has conducted several businesses cases and go-to-market strategies for banks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and Zambia.
Fair Internship Initiative

Fair Internship Initiative

The Fair Internship Initiative is a grassroots advocacy platform composed of Intern Boards, interns, and young professionals from across the United Nations system. Since 2015, FII has been advocating for better and fairer internships in the U.N. To this end, FII collects and disseminates data and information on U.N. internships, e.g., the 2019-20 Internships Report, along with organizing public events and other outreach activities.