Meet the Devex Authors

Jean Duff

Jean Duff

Jean Duff is the president of the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, which provides humanitarian policy makers and practitioners with research and evidence about effective ways to collaborate with local faith actors for the benefit of displaced and marginalized people.
Jean Kagubare

Jean Kagubare

Jean Kagubare is the global technical lead for health care financing at Management Sciences for Health, where he provides technical expertise to MSH projects in the areas of health care financing and management, with focus on performance-based financing, community health insurance and costing of health services and governance. He has been providing technical support in the design and implementation of PBF programs in countries such as Rwanda, DRC, South Sudan, Liberia, Burundi, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Haiti.
Jean Kalilani

Jean Kalilani

Dr. Jean Kalilani was appointed minister of health in June 2014. Kalilani is a former World Health Organization country representative for Botswana and Lesotho, and also managed the first National AIDS Program in Malawi. She earned a doctor of medicine as well as a master’s degree in tropical medicine in Marseille, France.
Jean Kaseya

Jean Kaseya

Jean Kaseya, a Congolese medical doctor with advanced degrees in epidemiology and community health, was appointed director-general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in February 2023. Kaseya brings to this position over 25 years of expertise in the field of public health, having held pivotal roles both at the national and international levels with various organizations from the private sector, philanthropies, and bilateral and multilateral development partners.
Jean Lambert

Jean Lambert

Jean Lambert has been London’s Green MEP since 1999. In Parliament, she sits on the employment and social affairs committee, where her work focuses on social inclusion, workers’ rights, immigration and social security. She is also a member of the civil liberties, justice and home affairs committee. Jean chairs the South Asian delegation and has led delegations to Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and the Maldives. She is immigration spokeswoman for the Green Party.
Jean Saldanha

Jean Saldanha

Jean Saldanha is the director of the European Network on Debt and Development, or EURODAD. She was previously a senior adviser at CIDSE, the international alliance of Catholic development organizations based in Brussels. She also coordinated CIDSE’s finance advocacy for more than a decade and led the work of European and international civil society coalitions on the U.N.‘s Financing for Development and Post-2015/SDG processes.
Jean Claude Mugunga

Jean Claude Mugunga

Jean Claude Mugunga is a physician and associate director of monitoring, evaluation, and quality at Partners In Health, a social justice health care organization working with 10 countries. He leads the organization’s planning and costing efforts around universal health coverage.
Jean Claude Rubyogo

Jean Claude Rubyogo

Jean Claude Rubyogo is the leader of the bean program and director of the Pan Africa Bean Research Alliance at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT. He is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
Jean-Claude Tchatchouang

Jean-Claude Tchatchouang

Mr. Jean-Claude Tchatchouang, a Cameroon national, is the executive director of the World Bank Group Board of Executive Directors representing Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Niger, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, and Togo.
Jeanne Bourgault

Jeanne Bourgault

As president and CEO of Internews, Jeanne Bourgault leads the strategic management of the organization and its global programs. Bourgault previously served as Internews’ chief operating officer; she joined Internews in 2001. Prior to Internews, Bourgault worked in countries undergoing dramatic shifts in media and political landscapes. She served for six years with the U.S. Agency for International Development, in Latin America and in Russia.