Meet the Devex Authors

Fiona Macaulay

Fiona Macaulay

Fiona M. Macaulay has 20 years of international experience developing and documenting best practices in economic and social inclusion initiatives. She co-creates strategies that knit together the ecosystem of youth development stakeholders, including fostering closer working relationships with the private sector to benefit from their intellectual capital. She is a sought after speaker on critical trends in the youth economic development sector as well as women's entrepreneurship and what it takes to grow a social enterprise.
Fiona Reynolds

Fiona Reynolds

Fiona Reynolds chairs the steering committee for Finance for Peace. She boasts a multidecade career in the financial services and pension sectors (ESG/sustainability issues) and is the former CEO of the U.N.’s Principles for Responsible Investment. Fiona is the chair of the U.N. Global Compact in Australia and a nonexecutive director, working across ESG issues.
Fiona Robertson

Fiona Robertson

Fiona Robertson is a policy officer for development finance at the ONE Campaign, specializing in issues around debt and domestic resource mobilization in Africa. A former ODI fellow, Fiona worked in Nigeria as a technical advisor to the Statistician General at the National Bureau of Statistics, staying in Nigeria to consult for DFID programs before returning to the U.K. Fiona has an MSc in development economics from the University of Sussex.
Fiona Samuels

Fiona Samuels

Fiona Samuels is a research fellow at the Overseas Development Institute and the health dimension lead for the Development Progress project. A social anthropologist with over 15 years' experience across public health and rural development in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Fiona's interests include health and its links with poverty, exclusion, migration and social protection.
Fiona Smith-Laittan

Fiona Smith-Laittan

Fiona Smith-Laittan is vice president and head of GlaxoSmithKline’s global health unit, which coordinates GSK’s enterprisewide global health activities led by three global businesses — pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and consumer — and focus on the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases in children and adolescents in the lowest-income countries, as well as corporate global health programs.
Fiona Zublin

Fiona Zublin

Fiona Zublin is Devex's Deputy Managing Editor. Prior to joining the Devex team, she worked at OZY, NPR, and The Washington Post. Originally from the United States, she now lives and works in Paris.
Fionna Smyth

Fionna Smyth

Fionna Smyth, director of influence and growth at Development Initiatives, is a passionate internationalist and development, human rights, and gender equality professional. She is a strategic communications and advocacy expert who believes in the power of data and evidence to change the systems and structures that keep people trapped in poverty.
Fionnuala Murphy

Fionnuala Murphy

Fionnuala Murphy has worked as a campaigner and advocate for global health and women's rights since 2004. She is currently the campaigns coordinator at the International HIV/AIDS Allliance and an active member of the U.K. Consortium for AIDS and International Development.
Flavia Bustreo

Flavia Bustreo

Dr. Flavia Bustreo is a leading physician, public health professional, and advocate for the health and human rights of women, children, adolescents, and older adults. She is known for taking action on the social and environmental determinants of health. She is currently vice-chair of Fondation Botnar and co-chair of The Lancet Commission on Gender-Based Violence and Maltreatment of Young People.
Flavia Senkubuge

Flavia Senkubuge

Professor Flavia Senkubuge is a specialist in public health medicine and is the president of Women in Global Health South Africa. She is the deputy dean for health stakeholder relations at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is also the 20th president of the Colleges of Medicine South Africa. She is the first black woman and only the third woman in the CMSA’s 67 years to hold the position. She is the current chair of the WHO/African region African Advisory Council on Research and Development.