Meet the Devex Authors

Fernando Calado

Fernando Calado

Fernando Calado is a post-conflict development expert with 15 years of experience developing and managing technical assistance programs with international organizations, public and private sector in multiple countries including Guatemala, Colombia, East Timor, Sri Lanka, Libya among others. He currently serves as chief of party for a human rights project in Brazil that is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Fernando Marani

Fernando Marani

Fernando Marani is the program director of justice, inclusion, and equality at NYU’s Center on International Cooperation. A former Argentine diplomat, he has over 20 years of experience in multilateral diplomacy, international law, and human rights, including senior roles at the U.N. General Assembly and global forums on justice and anti-corruption.
Fernando Frutuoso de Melo

Fernando Frutuoso de Melo

Fernando Frutuoso de Melo was appointed director general of the European Commission's EuropeAid in July 2013, taking up his new functions in November. With the Commission since 1987, he has considerable experience in development, human resources, inter-institutional relations and fisheries issues. He previously served as deputy director general of the human resources department, as well as in the private offices of EU Commissioner Olli Rehn and Commission President Barroso.
Filipe Lucio

Filipe Lucio

Filipe Domingos Freires Lúcio is the director of the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) Office in the WMO Secretariat. He joined the World Meteorological Organization in 2007 following 20 years of hands-on experience in operational meteorology and research, 10 of which as the director of the National Institute of Meteorology of Mozambique.
Fiona Macaulay

Fiona Macaulay

Fiona Macaulay is the founder and CEO of Making Cents International, dedicated to enabling youths worldwide to create their own economic opportunities. A Devex 40 under 40 development leader, Macaulay initiated the annual Global Youth Economic Opportunities Summit and YouthEconomicOpportunities.org, a global knowledge management platform to increase economic opportunities.
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.