Meet the Devex Authors

H.E. Masud Momen

H.E. Masud Momen

Masud Momen is the ambassador and permanent representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations and has been in post since 2015. A career civil servant, previously he was ambassador to Japan between 2012 and 2015, ambassador to Italy and permanent representative to the Food and Agriculture Organization, World Food Programme, and International Fund for Agricultural Development between 2008 and 2012.
H.E. Nguyen Phuong Nga

H.E. Nguyen Phuong Nga

Nguyen Phuong Nga was appointed to post as ambassador and permanent representative of Vietnam to the United Nations in 2014. She is a career civil servant, with past senior roles as deputy minister of foreign affairs between 2011 and 2014 and as ministry of foreign affairs' spokeswoman aka director general, department of press and information between 2007 and 2009. She has held senior appointments in Vietnam’s embassies in Belgium, Luxembourg and its mission to the European Union, Brussels. She was born in Hanoi and holds a master's in international journalism.
Henk Ovink

Henk Ovink

Henk Ovink is the Netherlands’ special envoy for international water affairs.
Henk van Duijn

Henk van Duijn

Henk van Duijn is the president and CEO of the IFDC. Under his leadership, IFDC seeks to promote soil health as a holistic approach to agricultural development. Prior to assuming leadership at IFDC, van Duijn served as program director of 2SCALE, a Pan-African business incubator led by IFDC among other roles.
Henning Ringholz

Henning Ringholz

Henning Ringholz is the global market development adviser for GOAL, an INGO that focuses on emergency and development programming in 16 countries worldwide, with an annual turnover of $200 million. Prior to joining GOAL in 2010, Henning worked in Sierra Leone in the health and agribusiness sectors. He has long-standing experience in the European and Latin American food processing industry, and worked in strategy consulting at Monitor and BearingPoint. Henning has an M.A. in social and political sciences from Cambridge University, as well as an M.Phil. in technology policy from Cambridge University Judge Business School.
Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte

Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte

Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte coordinates the OECD Development Centre’s work on Africa, Middle East & Europe and has led research projects on trade, private sector development and development finance. Previously, he was an influential analyst of the renegotiation of ACP-EU trade agreements at the European Centre for Development Policy Management and the Overseas Development Institute. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne).
Henrietta H. Fore

Henrietta H. Fore

Henrietta Fore is executive director of UNICEF.
Henriette Kolb

Henriette Kolb

Henriette is the head of the Gender Secretariat at the International Finance Corporation, where she serves as a spokesperson on gender equality issues in the private sector. Prior to joining IFC in September 2013, she was the Chief Executive of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, and served as a sub-committee member of Secretary Hillary Clinton's International Council on Women's Business Leadership. Henriette is also one of the 2011 “Devex 40 under 40” international development leaders.
Henrik Skovby

Henrik Skovby

Henry Lewis

Henry Lewis

Henry joined Publish What You Fund in July 2019 to work on the humanitarian transparency research project. He currently works on the 2022 Aid Transparency Index and the Women’s Economic Empowerment project. He has worked in philanthropy in the humanitarian field, particularly on early childhood development and children displaced by conflict.