Meet the Devex Authors

Gerda Verburg

Gerda Verburg

Gerda Verburg is the SUN Movement coordinator and U.N. assistant secretary-general.
Germán Garavano

Germán Garavano

Germán Garavano is currently the minister of justice and human rights of Argentina, a post he has held since 2015. Minister Garavano studied law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina Santa María de los Buenos Aires and received his postgraduate degree from the Instituto de Derecho y Economía de la Universidad Carlos III. Mr. Garavano has done extensive academic work across Latin America in the field of judicial reform and is the author, co-author, and editor of various books and articles on different aspects of the judicial system.
Gertrude Kenyangi

Gertrude Kenyangi

Gertrude Kenyangi is executive director of Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment in Uganda. With more than 20 years experience in forestry and biodiversity, she serves in several global policy spaces — including the Women and Gender Constituency of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Women and Gender Stakeholder Group of the U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame

Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame is Sightsavers’ global advocacy manager for social inclusion. A committed gender and disability advocate, she is also a member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, chair of ICEVI Africa, and a technical adviser to the Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations.
Ghada Abdel Tawab

Ghada Abdel Tawab

Ghada Abdel Tawab is a senior program officer on the Future of Work(ers) team at the Ford Foundation leading on worker power, protections and policy. With nearly 30 years of experience, she has advanced economic and gender justice globally. She holds a master’s degree in development studies from the American University in Cairo.
Ghada Hammouda

Ghada Hammouda

Ghada Hammouda is chief marketing officer at Qalaa Holdings (formerly Citadel Capital), an African leader in infrastructure and industry whose business units operate in the energy, cement, transportation and logistics and mining sectors.
Gianluca Storchi

Gianluca Storchi

Gianluca Storchi is a data manager for the Mobile Money program at GSMA. Within the data and insights team, he leads project data analytics, authors blogs and reports, and spearheads data processing and analysis for the annual State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money, which he also co-authors. Gianluca also co-authored “Mobile money: How digital payments have impacted economic growth,” a groundbreaking report that establishes the macroeconomic impacts of mobile money.
Gib Bulloch

Gib Bulloch

Gib Bulloch is founder and former executive director of Accenture Development Partnerships, a corporate social enterprise hosted within Accenture, whose clients include many of the major international NGOs and development agencies. Follow him on Twitter: @gibbulloch.
Gideon Maltz

Gideon Maltz

Gideon Maltz is the executive director of the Tent Partnership for Refugees. He previously served as deputy chief of staff to Ambassador Samantha Power at the U.S. mission to the United Nations; director of human rights and multilateral affairs at the U.S. National Security Council; and senior advisor to the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Prior to government service, Gideon worked as an attorney in the international trade practice of Hogan Lovells and as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He has also served as a Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Predoctoral Fellow at Stanford’s Center for Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law. Gideon has a BA from Yale and a JD from Stanford Law School.
Gilbert F. Houngbo

Gilbert F. Houngbo

Gilbert F. Houngbo is president at the International Fund for Agricultural Development. He has more than 30 years of experience in the public, multilateral, and private sectors, including as deputy director-general at the International Labour Organization. He is also a former prime minister of Togo.