Meet the Devex Authors

Hap of Vietnam

Hap of Vietnam

Hap, 16, is from Vietnam. Supported by Plan International, she has been recognized as one of Glamour’s Bravest Girls in the World. She also featured in Plan’s 2012 video "Three Girls, One Day." As a youth beneficiary from a Plan International Canada community sponsorship program supported by Canadian donors, Hap is an advocate for a girls’ right to education and is determined to overcome the odds and go to high school.
Harald Nusser

Harald Nusser

Harald Nusser is the head of global patient solutions at Gilead Sciences, working on sustainable business models to ensure that medicines are affordable and accessible around the world. He is also a global ambassador of the G20 Health & Development Partnership. Prior to joining Gilead, Harald was head of Novartis Social Business, and he supported The Defeat-NCD Partnership as a board member in 2018. Harald also spent 10 years at Bayer Pharmaceuticals and six years at Schering Pharmaceuticals. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Freie Universität Berlin and an Executive MBA from the University of Bradford.
Hardin Lang

Hardin Lang

Hardin Lang is vice president for programs and policy at Refugees International. He is a veteran of six United Nations peacekeeping and humanitarian field missions.
Hari Fitri Putjuk

Hari Fitri Putjuk

Hari Fitri Putjuk has over 25 years of experience in communications and advocacy for development programs. She joined the Center for Communication Programs in 1995 and, in this role, provides technical assistance to government, NGOs, faith-based organizations, professional organizations and civil society on family planning communications and advocacy. Fitri currently manages a portfolio of programs for Advance Family Planning and leads a team that advocates with local and national policymakers to increase commitments for family planning in Indonesia.
Harinder S. Kohli

Harinder S. Kohli

Harinder S. Kohli is the founding director and chief executive of Emerging Markets Forum as well as founding director, president, and CEO of Centennial Group International, both based in Washington, D.C. He is the founding editor of the Global Journal of Emerging Markets Economies. He is also director of a number of other international companies, including LatinFinance.
Harish Hande

Harish Hande

Harish Hande co-founded Selco India to eradicate poverty by promoting sustainable technologies in rural India. Since 1995, Selco has built a service network of 28 branches in Karnataka and Gujarat, with 180 employees catering to more than 500,000 customers in rural and urban areas. Harish has received several awards and recognitions for his work, including Asia's prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award, sometimes referred to as Asia's Nobel Prize, for his pragmatic efforts to put solar power technology in the hands of the poor through social enterprise. Harish holds an undergraduate engineering degree from IIT Kharagpur and a Ph.D. in energy engineering from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Harleen Kaur Sidhu

Harleen Kaur Sidhu

Harleen Kaur Sidhu joined Jhpiego India’s communications team in October 2018 and has been working as a communications officer at the nonprofit’s India country office at New Delhi. Prior to joining Jhpiego, Sidhu consulted and worked in the development sector, mainly in the areas of communications, content creation for new media, digital campaigns management, and project management. Sidhu holds a master’s degree in migration, conflicts, and social cohesion from Deusto University, Spain.
Harold Brooks

Harold Brooks

Harold Brooks is senior vice president for international operations at the American Red Cross since January 2013. With over 30 years of experience in development, before joining the organization Brooks was previously country director for AfriCare in Kenya, and head of the Peace Corps in Papua New Guinea.
Haroon Janjua

Haroon Janjua

Haroon Janjua is an independent journalist based in Islamabad, Pakistan. He writes about human rights and global affairs.
Haroon Mokhtarzada

Haroon Mokhtarzada

Haroon Mokhtarzada is a member of the United Nations Foundation's Global Entrepreneurs Council. He recently traveled with the Council to Uganda to learn first-hand how U.N. agencies like UNHCR, UNICEF and UNFPA, in concert with NGOs and local entrepreneurs, are innovating to make significant improvements on key local issues. Learn more about the U.N. Foundation at www.unfoundation.org.