Meet the Devex Authors

Håvard Mokleiv Nygård

Håvard Mokleiv Nygård

Håvard Mokleiv Nygård is director of the department of knowledge and innovation at the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, or Norad. Before coming to Norad, Nygård was research director and research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, or PRIO.
Haven Ley

Haven Ley

Haven Ley is the chief strategy officer of Pivotal Ventures, leading the programmatic and investment strategy in support of the company's vision to expand women’s power and influence around the world. Prior to Pivotal Ventures, she was senior advisor to the co-chair at the Gates Foundation, expanding her role from senior program officer, where she managed gender-responsive grantmaking in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Haven's career managing social impact programs spans over 20 years, including her early work with Millennium Challenge Corporation and USAID-funded programs in low- and middle-income countries.
Hayley Mundeva

Hayley Mundeva

Hayley Mundeva is the Communications Lead at Devex, where she handles executive communications, podcast production, and other signature content. Born in Nepal and based in Rwanda, she brings communications consulting experience spanning private businesses, nonprofits, and international organizations in East Africa, Southeast Asia, and North America. She holds a master's degree in global health.
Hazra Khatoon

Hazra Khatoon

Hazra Khatoon is an independent journalist with a master’s degree in journalism who writes about health, climate, tech, travel, and culture. Her work has appeared in Well+Good, Insider, Giddy, South China Morning Post, Sentient Media, StyleCaster, Discover, Evening & Standard, and Chatelaine, among others.
Heath Cosgrove

Heath Cosgrove

Heath Cosgrove is the director of USAID's Land Tenure and Resource Management Office and a USAID foreign service officer currently working in Washington, D.C. He is responsible for the agency's global advisory and learning services that advance poverty-reducing principles for inclusive economic growth and good governance through improving land and resource governance and strengthening property rights. Throughout his career he has worked in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe.
Heather Doyle

Heather Doyle

Heather Doyle is an international public health and human rights expert, currently the senior coordinator on gender at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Previously, she led the Sexual Health and Rights Project, a grant-making and advocacy initiative at the Open Society Foundations. In more than 20 years of international experience, Doyle has worked on health inequities with a focus on women’s health at the Catholic Relief Services, Medicines Sans Frontiers among other national and international organizations. She holds a master's degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
Heather Sherwin

Heather Sherwin

Heather Sherwin has two decades of experience working to fund and commercialize life sciences and health care technology and companies in Africa.
Heather White

Heather White

Heather White is the executive director at TogetHER for Health, where she leads the organization in its ongoing mission to end cervical cancer worldwide through effective partnership, advocacy, and resource mobilization. White is a global health specialist with 20 years of experience in program design, management, and evaluation across numerous practice areas in over 20 countries, including noncommunicable diseases, HIV, family planning, and cervical cancer prevention. She has a master’s degree in public health and a doctorate in public health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Heba Aly

Heba Aly

Heba Aly is the coordinator of the UN Charter Reform Coalition, which mobilizes U.N. member states to call a general conference to review the U.N. Charter, in line with Article 109. She is also a senior adviser at the Coalition for the UN We Need.
Héctor Pourtalé

Héctor Pourtalé

Héctor Pourtalé is the executive director of the Movement Health Foundation. With experience in public affairs, marketing project management, and commercial excellence analysis, he works to drive high-impact global health care solutions. He holds a degree in philosophy from Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum and earned his MBA from IAE Business School.