Meet the Devex Authors

Alicia Ely Yamin

Alicia Ely Yamin

Alicia Ely Yamin is a senior fellow in global health and rights at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, and member of the Independent Accountability Panel.
Alimatu Dimonekene

Alimatu Dimonekene

Alimatu Dimonekene is a human rights and gender advocate with over 30 years of experience addressing gender-based violence, climate resilience, and women’s empowerment in Sierra Leone. She works with grassroots communities and international partners to highlight how climate change disproportionately affects women and to advance gender-responsive policies in disaster response. She was awarded an MBE, or member of the Order of the British Empire, in 2023.
Alisa DiCaprio

Alisa DiCaprio

Alisa DiCaprio is a trade economist in Asian Development Bank’s Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department. She is currently on secondment to ADB Institute in Tokyo. Her research explores ways to make trade a more effective development tool. In particular, she highlights nontraditional trade topics including trade finance gaps, e-commerce, and fragile and landlocked states.
Alisa Kreynes

Alisa Kreynes

Alisa Kreynes is C40’s director of ports and shipping.
Alisa Herrero Cangas

Alisa Herrero Cangas

Alisa Herrero Cangas is a policy officer at ECDPM and is based in Brussels. With a background in international relations and development, studying at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the London School of Economics, she specializes in the interinstitutional aspects of EU external relations and in EU development cooperation.
Alison Baker

Alison Baker

Alison Baker is currently the fund manager of the Water for Women Fund — the Australian Government’s flagship water, sanitation, and hygiene initiative under the Australian Aid program. Gender and social inclusion are central to the delivery of inclusive WASH projects and research undertaken through the fund, with an increasing focus on building climate resilient communities and systems. Alison has worked in the international development sector with GHD since 1997, where she has held both technical and management roles in the areas of water and sanitation, environment, water resource management, and climate change.
Alison Campbell

Alison Campbell

Alison Campbell is senior director for global initiatives at Internews, overseeing health and humanitarian programs. Her specialty is designing and troubleshooting media projects in conflict, post-conflict, peace building and other transitional environments in Africa and Southeast Asia.
Alison Doig

Alison Doig

Alison Doig is senior adviser for climate change and sustainable development at Christian Aid.
Alison Evans

Alison Evans

Alison Evans is director-general of evaluation at the World Bank Group since January 2019. Before her current role, Evans was the chief commissioner of the U.K.’s Independent Commission for Aid Impact, where she provided strong leadership and vision to the transformation of that organization's scrutiny mandate. Evans brings more than 25 years of international development experience, spanning policy, research, and evaluation across diverse geopolitical and multicultural environments.
Alison Gilbert

Alison Gilbert

Alison Gilbert worked at the Skoll Foundation from 2015-2018, leveraging creative content and influencer engagement to help amplify the impact of social entrepreneurs around the world. Prior to Skoll Alison worked in South Africa with Grassroot Soccer, an organization that uses the power of soccer to engage youth in HIV prevention and life skills education. She is currently earning an MBA at Berkeley Haas School of Business and plans to pursue a career in responsible business.