Meet the Devex Authors

Gabrielle Fitzgerald

Gabrielle Fitzgerald

Gabrielle Fitzgerald is the founder and CEO of Panorama, a nonprofit action tank working to solve global problems through audacious thinking and bold action. She believes innovative approaches and catalytic coalitions are needed to solve the most challenging issues. Her focus is on designing and driving strategies that measurably impact people, organizations and countries.
Gabrielle Fitzgerald

Gabrielle Fitzgerald

Gabrielle Fitzgerald is CEO of Panorama, a Seattle-based action tank. She ran the largest philanthropic initiative to respond to Ebola during the 2014-15 outbreak, and was a member of the WHO director-general’s advisory group on the reform of WHO’s response to outbreaks and emergencies.
Gagik Karapetyan

Gagik Karapetyan

Dr. Gagik Karapetyan is World Vision’s senior technical adviser — infectious diseases. He has more than 20 years of working experience in the health field and over 10 years of project management experience, including management and coordination of the programs supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Gail Hurley

Gail Hurley

Gail Hurley is an advisor and researcher on development finance, currently with UNDP in New York. She has also worked at the European Network on Debt and Development (EURODAD). Gail advises governments on their financing for development strategies, including implementing innovative finance schemes, and works to ensure that more resources are made available for investing in the SDGs.
Gareth Owen OBE

Gareth Owen OBE

Gareth Owen OBE, humanitarian director, Save the Children UK. Gareth began his aid career in Somalia in 1993 and has spent the last 30 years working in the humanitarian sector. He joined Save the Children in 2002 as an emergency adviser and became humanitarian director in 2007. He has played a pivotal role in the development of Save the Children’s humanitarian capacity and in the establishment of successful collaborative enterprises including Elrha, the Start Network, and the Humanitarian Leadership Academy. Gareth was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to emergency crisis response abroad and has just published his first book, “When the Music’s Over — Intervention, Aid and Somalia”.
Gareth Willmer

Gareth Willmer

Gareth Willmer is a freelance writer and subeditor based in London. His main coverage areas are science, technology and telecoms, as well as how changes and advances in these areas affect the developing world. He regularly works for publications including New Scientist and SciDev.Net, and previously worked as a subeditor for Nature.
Gareth James Lloyd

Gareth James Lloyd

Gareth James Lloyd works as senior advisor at UNEP-DHI Partnership, a United Nations Environment Programme collaboration center on water and the environment. Based in Denmark, but with an international focus, his portfolio includes U.N. work linked to the Sustainable Development Goals, technology transfer to developing countries and serious gaming. He has degrees in environmental science and environmental policy.
Gary Brown

Gary Brown

Gary Brown, LCSW, MPA, is a staff care specialist with The KonTerra Group. He has provided training and support to the United Nations International Labor Organization, U.S. Agency for International Development and leading international humanitarian aid groups.
Gary Cohen

Gary Cohen

Gary Cohen is executive vice president of global health and president of the BD Foundation, a medical technology company with 65,000 employees worldwide. He is also a board director of the CDC Foundation and UNICEF USA, board co-chair of GBCHealth, and board chair and founder of Together for Girls. He previously served on the UN Commission on Life Saving Commodities for Women and Children, and presently serves as chair of the CDC/Corporate Roundtable on Global Health Threats and on the Scientific Advisory Board of Grand Challenges Canada.
Gary Finnegan

Gary Finnegan

Gary Finnegan has a degree in physiology, an MSc in science communications, and has worked as a health journalist and editor for 10 years. He was a national winner at the EU Health Prize for Journalists in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Having always been interested in health, he joined the Break Dengue team to be part of a broad coalition focused on defeating a disease that affects some of the world’s most vulnerable people. As the editor-in-chief, Gary plans and prepares content for Break Dengue with the support of the editorial team.