Meet the Devex Authors

James Crowley & Morgana Ryan

James Crowley & Morgana Ryan

James Crowley has helped strengthen over a dozen of largest global NGOs over past 8 years as an independent advisor; previously he led Accenture's strategy practice in the UK and Ireland. Morgana Ryan leads Accenture Development Partnerships' Organizational Strengthening practice and uses her 16+ years of global work experience in business and development to look for scalable and sustainable development outcomes. Together they authored the new book, "Building a Better International NGO: Greater than the Sum of the Parts?"
James M. Dorsey

James M. Dorsey

James M. Dorsey is a Devex correspondent, senior fellow at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and the author of "The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer" blog. James has written frequently about Afghanistan, reporting as a foreign correspondent regularly from the country since he first covered the Soviet invasion in 1979 from Kabul.
James Michael Jackson

James Michael Jackson

An engineer by training, James Michael Jackson has worked on construction projects in Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and the United States, and as an aid worker has overseen infrastructure projects in Congo, Afghanistan and Uganda.
Jamie Holton

Jamie Holton

Jamie joined Publish What You Fund in February 2020 to work on their gender financing project. She now supports the project Women’s Economic Empowerment. She previously worked as a consultant for Save the Children U.K. and United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs; and interned with the Dutch MFA and the National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence against Children. Jamie’s research has focused on the effectiveness of humanitarian collaboration, opportunities for private-public open data partnerships, and the impact of a children’s savings programme for street children in Mumbai.
Jamie Morrison

Jamie Morrison

Jamie Morrison joined The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) in 2022 to support national and global initiatives to strengthen food systems policy. Formerly director of food systems and food safety at the Food and Agriculture Organization, he has more than 25 years of experience in the provision of research, capacity development, and technical assistance on the impact of trade and economic policy on processes of agricultural development and food systems transformation.
Jamie Rickman

Jamie Rickman

Jamie Rickman received her Ph.D. from the Francis Crick Institute in the Physics of Living Systems. Her research interests now lie in applying complexity thinking to the area of climate finance. She uses computational, network, and data science approaches to study the ecosystems of investors behind fossil fuel and green investments.
Jamie  Drummond

Jamie Drummond

Jamie Drummond is an advocacy entrepreneur who co-founded ONE with Bono and other activists. ONE is a global organization with over 9 million members campaigning against extreme poverty, for the transformation of developing economies, and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Jamie was the global strategist for Drop the Debt, helping to cancel $110 billion of mainly African debt. He is now working with a range of public, private, and civic sector partners to design a campaign strategy for an SDG super year of activism in 2020 to launch a decade of delivery for the Global Goals through to 2030.
Jamie Bay Nishi

Jamie Bay Nishi

Jamie Bay Nishi is director of the Global Health Technologies Coalition, a coalition of 30 nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, and aligned businesses advancing policies to accelerate the creation of new drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, and other tools that bring healthy lives within reach for all people.
Jamila White

Jamila White

Jamila is the senior Africa representative for Mercy Corps. Mercy Corps is a global team of humanitarians who partner with communities, corporations, and governments to transform lives around the world by alleviating suffering, poverty, and oppression to help people build secure, productive, and just communities. Jamila helps drive implementation of Mercy Corps Africa’s strategy and co-chairs Mercy Corps' Washington, D.C.-based affinity group for people of color.