Meet the Devex Authors

Evans Sagwa

Evans Sagwa

Evans Sagwa is a pharmaceutical management expert and public health leader with more than 20 years of experience in strengthening health systems and supply chains in low- and middle-income countries. Sagwa has specific expertise in pharmaceutical policy and regulation, product safety, and quality assurance systems. He currently leads the USAID-funded Promoting the Quality of Medicines Plus program in Eastern and Southern Africa and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Eveline Tall

Eveline Tall

Eveline Tall is the chairperson at E and Partners and former deputy CEO/COO at Ecobank Transnational Inc. She is a distinguished leader in the financial industry, offering insights into the current state of gender investment disparities and the potential for women to drive Africa's economic growth.
Evert Bopp

Evert Bopp

Evert Bopp is the founder and CEO of Disaster Tech Lab, which provides rapid response communication networks for use in disaster relief and humanitarian aid work.
Evie Stretch

Evie Stretch

Evie Stretch is a program officer for evidence to policy and practice at the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, where she supports CIFF's global health and nutrition portfolio. She is an international development professional with program, policy, and advocacy experience in maternal and infant nutrition and food systems in multiple countries.
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.