Meet the Devex Authors

Alyse Nelson

Alyse Nelson

Alyse Nelson is the co-founder, president & CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership. Nelson has worked for the organization for more than 22 years, serving as vice president and senior director of programs before assuming her current role in 2009. Under her leadership, Vital Voices has expanded its reach to serve over 20,000 women leaders across 184 countries and territories.
Alyssa Ross

Alyssa Ross

Alyssa Ross is a program specialist with the International Migration Initiative at the Open Society Foundations.
Amadée  Mudie-Mantz

Amadée Mudie-Mantz

Amadée Mudie-Mantz is a policy adviser with the Munich Security Conference in Berlin. She is responsible for the program areas of Human Security and Sustainability, with a particular focus on food security, climate security, as well as Women, Peace, and Security. Furthermore, she co-coordinates the MSC Food Security Task Force and the MSC Women Parliamentarians Program.
Amadou Boly

Amadou Boly

Amadou Boly is special assistant to the chief economist and vice president of the African Development Bank. He previously worked as a research fellow at UNU-WIDER and as industrial development officer at UNIDO. He is a resource person for the African Economic Research Consortium and was an associate editor of the African Development Review.
Amadou Hott

Amadou Hott

Amadou Hott is a former minister of economy, planning and cooperation for Senegal and the special envoy of the president of the African Development Bank for the Alliance for Green Infrastructure in Africa. His deep understanding of the continent’s potential and financing needs, coupled with his active participation in global financial reform discussions, makes him a transformative leader to drive sustainable prosperity in a more inclusive, integrated, and resilient Africa.
Amadou Sy

Amadou Sy

Amadou Sy is director of the Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution and a member of the editorial board of the Global Credit Review. He was previously deputy division chief at the International Monetary Fund. He focuses on banking, capital markets, and macroeconomics in Africa and emerging markets.
Amanda Berman

Amanda Berman

Amanda Berman is a senior program management officer at GeoPoll. Her background is in international health, specifically monitoring and evaluation and mobile health.
Amanda Campbell

Amanda Campbell

Amanda Campbell is head of Net Zero at the Satellite Applications Catapult and started her career in sustainability via her circular-economy start-ups. Driven by impact, she progressed onto mentoring, consulting, and managed innovation for the UK’s largest waste company. Amanda specialized in corporate net zero strategies during her late MSc in Environmental Technology and joined the Catapult as she believes innovative applications of satellite technologies will drive the most impactful climate change solutions.
Amanda Folsom

Amanda Folsom

Amanda Folsom is a senior program director at Results for Development, where she leads the network facilitation and coordination of the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage. She also heads a health financing technical assistance program supporting policymakers and government leaders in Nigeria on the path to UHC.