Meet the Devex Authors

Franka Cadée

Franka Cadée

Franka Cadée is the current president of the International Confederation of Midwives. She is an expert on midwifery and advisor on international maternal health, with over 30 years of experience in strategy and policy developments, advocacy, leadership, project management, and partnership.
Frank Charles Kasonga

Frank Charles Kasonga

Frank Charles Kasonga is the executive director of Mudzi Connect, an independent grantmaking hub that invests directly in the aspirations of communities in Malawi. He holds a Master of Arts in Transformative Community Development from Mzuzu University and is widely recognized for advancing community-driven solutions to development challenges.
Franziska Schreiber

Franziska Schreiber

Franziska Schreiber is a project manager at adelphi. An expert in urbanization, she is engaged in several issues relating to adelphi’s urban development work. Recent publications include studies and policy briefs on the New Urban Agenda as well as a chapter titled "The Inclusive City: Urban Planning for Diversity and Social Cohesion" as part of the Worldwatch Report 2016.
Fred Boltz

Fred Boltz

Fred Boltz is a managing director and member of the leadership team at The Rockefeller Foundation, where he leads the foundation’s global work related to ecosystems. Fred has over 25 years of international development experience, including nine years of field practice in Africa, Asia and South America. For 15 years, he served as part of the technical staff and leadership of Conservation International, serving as lead technical adviser on conservation strategy and practice and as head of international policy.
Fred Carver

Fred Carver

Fred Carver is a freelance strategic consultant and researcher in the field of international relations with specific expertise in the United Nations, peacekeeping, atrocity prevention, civil wars, and political violence. He previously worked as head of policy for the United Nations Association – UK, implementing campaigns on U.N. reform, sexual violence prevention, and U.K. foreign policy. Before that, he ran the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice, a human rights NGO advocating lasting peace in Sri Lanka.
Fred Twesiime

Fred Twesiime

Fred Twesiime is an economist at Ugandan Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. He is also co-chair of the GPEDC's Building Block on Managing Diversity and Reducing Fragmentation.
Frederic Sicre

Frederic Sicre

Frederic Sicre has over 25 years of experience in engaging the private sector on global issues, regional development agendas and community building. He is managing director at Abraaj and leads global stakeholder engagement for the group working with leaders from governments, private sector, international organizations and NGOs.
Frédéric Corbasson

Frédéric Corbasson

Frédéric Corbasson has worked the last 33 years with Essilor across multiple geographies, from North America to Asia. In 2013, he joined the social impact team to contribute to the company's global ambition of eliminating uncorrected poor vision from the world by 2050. Today, he leads the philanthropic efforts of the Essilor Group globally in bringing good vision to everyone, everywhere.
Frederik van den Bosch

Frederik van den Bosch

Frederik is the manager of MASSIF, Blending and CD at the Netherlands Development Bank FMO, which supports sustainable private sector growth in developing and emerging markets by investing in ambitious companies. He has been at FMO for over 13 years and manages two specific funds through which FMO provides higher risk financing to financial institutions that serve micro and SME clients in developing countries.