Meet the Devex Authors

Fatma Karume

Fatma Karume

Fatma Karume is a partner at IMMMA Advocates.
Fatoumata Haidara

Fatoumata Haidara

Mali-born Fatoumata Haidara has 18 years of experience in community development, women and children’s rights and humanitarian work. She is a mentor of the Aspire Foundation and received national recognition from the Knights of the National Order of Mali in 2009. She was country representative in Mali for WaterAid from 2006 to 2013 and is now country representative in Zambia. Previously she worked with Oxfam. She is fluent in French and English.
Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré

Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré

As executive director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, Dr. Nafo-Traoré brings a wealth of expertise in maternal and child health, malaria control and health systems strengthening. She also served as minister of health and minister of social affairs, solidarity and the elderly from 2000 to 2002. In 2003, Nafo-Traoré was appointed as the first RBM executive secretary and later on as World Health Organization director for the RBM department.
Faustina Fynn-Nyame

Faustina Fynn-Nyame

Faustina Fynn-Nyame is the executive director for Africa at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation.
Federica de Gaetano

Federica de Gaetano

Federica de Gaetano joined the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, or AICS, in 2020 as food security project officer. She is a focal point for food security, contributing to international working groups. Prior to AICS, she worked for the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Forest Politics, and the European Commission. She holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and a master's in food law. She is also a co-chair of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development.
Federico Sibaja

Federico Sibaja

Federico Sibaja is Recourse’s IMF campaign manager. He monitors the institution’s progress in addressing the debt and climate crises. As an economist from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Federico has experience in policymaking and civil society gained through work in Argentina and Belgium.
Fekitamoeloa Katoa ‘Utoikamanu

Fekitamoeloa Katoa ‘Utoikamanu

Fekitamoeloa Katoa ‘Utoikamanu, a Tongan national, took up her appointment as the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States in May 2017. Prior to taking up her position with the United Nations, she was the chief executive officer of the Ministry of Tourism in Tonga.
Felicity Gray

Felicity Gray

Felicity Gray is the current startup director for Nonviolent Peaceforce in Ukraine. Before she left for secondment in Ukraine, she was the advocacy lead for NP in Washington. Previously, she worked for NP in South Sudan, where she served as a team leader in Bentiu, the largest displacement camp in the country. In addition to her experience as a practitioner, Felicity is an academic and expert in unarmed civilian protection.
Femi Oyebode

Femi Oyebode

Dr. Femi Oyebode is an honorary professor of psychiatry at the University of Birmingham and a retired consultant psychiatrist. In his scholarly publications, Oyebode has highlighted issues of poverty, social inequality, and mental health. In 2016, he was awarded the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ lifetime achievement award. He retired from clinical practice in 2021 and now focuses on teaching, broadcast work, and writing. He grew up in Lagos, Nigeria.
Fergus Drake

Fergus Drake

Fergus Drake is chief executive of Crown Agents, a not-for-profit international development company, established in 1833. Crown Agents work reaches over 15 million people in 50 countries, with expertise in public sector transformation, humanitarian and stabilization, procurement reform, last mile supply chain, health system strengthening and training and professional development. Prior to Crown Agents, Fergus was executive director of global programmes at Save the Children U.K. and worked for the Office of Tony Blair in Rwanda, Deloitte, and HM Treasury.