Meet the Devex Authors

Francisco Rivera

Francisco Rivera

Francisco Rivera is a human rights attorney, law professor, and founding director of the International Human Rights Clinic at Santa Clara University in California. He specializes in the inter-American human rights system and was a senior staff attorney at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States that is based in Costa Rica. He has been a consultant for a number of NGOs, as well as for the United Nations Development Programme, the International Labour Organization, and the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights.
Franck Chartier-Dumas

Franck Chartier-Dumas

Franck Chartier-Dumas is the project lead in health surveillance systems at SICPA and working in the health care and IT industries for almost 20 years. He has been supporting the development and implementation of pharmaceutical traceability solutions and public health monitoring systems, especially wastewater epidemiology-based, to support health authorities and governments.
Franck Wiebe

Franck Wiebe

Franck Wiebe is the chief economist at the Millennium Challenge Corp. Prior to joining MCC in 2006, Wiebe was chief economist at The Asia Foundation and worked with the Harvard Institute for International Development. Wiebe received master’s degrees from Northwestern University and the Kennedy School of Government, and his doctorate from Stanford University.
Francois Bonnici

Francois Bonnici

François Bonnici is director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship at the World Economic Forum. His experience spans over two decades of front-line work as a physician and progressive partnerships with public sector, multilaterals, civil society, businesses, and foundations.
François Bourguignon

François Bourguignon

François Bourguignon is an emeritus professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics and professor of economics at L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He has served as the director of the Paris School of Economics, the chief economist, and senior vice president at the World Bank, and advisor of the chief economist at Banque Mondiale. He has authored a number of books and received several awards and merits for his works.
Frank Beadle de Palomo

Frank Beadle de Palomo

Frank Beadle de Palomo has more than 30 years of experience in the global health community that includes significant achievements in HIV prevention, domestic, and global care, research, policy, and advocacy. Before joining mothers2mothers as CEO in 2012, Frank was senior vice president and director of the Global Health, Population, and Nutrition Group at FHI 360. Previously, Frank was senior vice president and director of the Academy for Educational Development (AED), where he reestablished the organization as a leader in global AIDS programs. He also created and directed the National Council of La Raza Center for Health Promotion in the U.S.
Frank Pichel

Frank Pichel

Frank Pichel is a land administration specialist with experience in designing, managing and implementing property rights-related projects, often with a technology focus, around the globe. As co-founder and chief program officer at Cadasta Foundation, he is working to build a transformative global ecosystem of partners, technology and data to protect land and property rights particularly for those underserved by national land agencies.
Frank Rijsberman

Frank Rijsberman

Frank Rijsberman is CEO of the CGIAR Consortium, a global partnership of 15 international agricultural research Centers with the shared vision of a food secure future. With over thirty years' experience as a researcher and consultant in natural resources management, Frank is leading the implementation of this vision through a coherent portfolio of research programs focusing on increasing food security, improving nutrition and health, reducing rural poverty, and protecting the environment.
Frank Rijsberman

Frank Rijsberman

Dr. Frank Rijsberman leads the Global Green Growth Institute in supporting governments' transition towards a model of economic growth that is environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive. With over 30 years’ experience addressing the challenges of environmental sustainability and poverty reduction with leading international organizations and philanthropic foundations, Rijsberman was appointed as the director-general of the institute in 2016.
Frank van de Looij

Frank van de Looij

Frank van de Looij is a health economist with broad experience in the management of health facilities in a development setting. He has worked as a consultant in several hospitals, focusing on the operational implementation of new financing instruments. After being an administrator in a Kenyan hospital, van de Looij joined Cordaid as a health systems strengthening and results-based financing expert. He is responsible for Cordaid’s RBF policies, with a focus on general RBF research management of the multi-country performance-based financing network in sub-Saharan Africa.