Meet the Devex Authors

Fokko Wientjes

Fokko Wientjes

Fokko Wientjes is the vice president of nutrition in emerging markets and public-private partnerships at Royal DSM NV with a particular focus on the World Food Programme and UNICEF partnerships on nutrition. He is also a member of the SUN Business Network Executive Committee; Sustainability Advisory Board, SNS Reaal; Advisory Board, Business and Economics School, University Maastricht; Steering Board, World Economic Forum New Vision on Agriculture.
Fragkiska Megaloudi

Fragkiska Megaloudi

For almost two years, Fragkiska lived in Pyongyang and she has published several analysis and reports on the humanitarian situation and daily life in North Korea. She has worked for the U.N. OCHA in the Philippines and IRIN news in Thailand. She has also lived in Jordan and Uganda where she worked for international aid organizations. She holds a doctorate in anthropology from EHESS or the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris and is a former lecturer at the University of Western Australia.
France Begin

France Begin

France Bégin is senior nutrition adviser for infant and young child nutrition at UNICEF in New York and previously she was regional nutrition adviser for the Asia-Pacific region from 2009-2013. She has more than 25 years of experience in international nutrition. She holds a Ph.D. in nutrition from the University of Montreal with a focus on international nutrition.
Frances Seymour

Frances Seymour

Frances Seymour is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and a senior advisor to the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. She is leading a project designed to create global consensus on the importance of forest conservation, and to promote results-based financing for REDD+. Previously, she served as director general of the Center for International Forestry Research and was a founding director of the Institutions and Governance Program at the World Resources Institute.
Frances Seymour

Frances Seymour

Frances Seymour is a distinguished senior fellow at the World Resources Institute, and lead author of the book, "Why Forests? Why Now? The Science, Economics, and Politics of Tropical Forests and Climate Change."
Francesco Branca

Francesco Branca

Dr. Francesco Branca is the director of nutrition for health and development at the World Health Organization. He has worked as a senior scientist at the Italian Food and Nutrition Research Institute and was president of the Federation of the European Nutrition Societies in 2003-2007. He finished medicine and surgery and specialized in diabetology and metabolic diseases at the Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, and obtained a doctorate in nutrition at Aberdeen University.
Francesco Gatti

Francesco Gatti

Francesco Gatti is a Ph.D. researcher in transnational governance at Scuola Normale Superiore in Italy. His research focuses on international organizations and regime complexity, with a particular emphasis on global trade and health governance.
Francesco Rocca

Francesco Rocca

Francesco Rocca is the president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and national president of the Italian Red Cross Association. He has enjoyed a long and distinguished career with the Italian Red Cross, first as its head of emergency operations in 2008 and its Extraordinary Commissioner (2009-2013) before being appointed national president (2013-2017) and later national president of the Italian Red Cross Association.
Francine Picard

Francine Picard

Francine Picard is co-founder and director of partnerships at the Shamba Centre for Food & Climate. She is also coordinator of the Zero Hunger Coalition, a global initiative that catalyses coordinated action to achieve zero hunger in the world by 2030.
Francine Pickup

Francine Pickup

Francine Pickup is the United Nations Development Programme’s deputy director in the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support. She has worked in the U.N., Oxfam, and Amnesty International in various countries including Serbia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, and the occupied Palestinian Territory.