Meet the Devex Authors

Amanda Gimble

Amanda Gimble

Amanda Gimble is senior vice president of strategic initiatives at Safe Water Network, where she leads efforts to develop the evidence base and engage sector stakeholders to scale up small water enterprises. She brings over a decade of experience in the social enterprise sector, particularly in India and Ghana, where she works to drive systemic change through collaborative partnerships. Previously, she was first vice president and co-head of corporate strategy at Merrill Lynch. She holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
Amanda Glassman

Amanda Glassman

Amanda Glassman is executive vice president and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, leading work on priority-setting, resource allocation, and value for money in global health, with a particular interest in vaccination. She has 20 years of experience working on health and social protection policy and programs in Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Glassman has published on a wide range of health and social protection finance and policy topics.
Amanda Griffith

Amanda Griffith

Amanda Griffith is the CEO of Family For Every Child. She has over 40 years’ international experience working for both large and small INGOs, as well as international networks. She has been the CEO of three U.K. charities, as well as significant practitioner expertise with vulnerable children and young people.
Amanda Klasing

Amanda Klasing

Amanda Klasing is (acting) co-director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. Her work focuses on research and advocacy for the promotion of the human rights of women and girls around the world, including their right to health, social and economic rights, and right to live free from violence.
Amanda Levinson

Amanda Levinson

Amanda Levinson is the co-founder of NeedsList, a company creating solutions for a new era of crisis response.
Amanda McClelland

Amanda McClelland

Amanda McClelland, senior vice president of Prevent Epidemics and Resolve to Save Lives, is a leading voice in global public health education — both in times of war and peace. She is a registered nurse who has served as a front-line health worker during the West Africa Ebola outbreak and is today a leader in educating public health systems around the world on how to mount a full-spectrum response to epidemics and pandemics.
Amanda Meyer

Amanda Meyer

Amanda Meyer is a director at Global Impact, where she specializes in strategic planning for social impact programs of international nonprofits and corporations. Seven years with the firm, she works closely with the executive team on a number of organizational priorities including revenue diversification, product incubation, and thought leadership.
Amanda Slagle

Amanda Slagle

Amanda Slagle is a certified global nurse consultant through the International Council of Nurses and a certified professional in health care quality from the National Association for Healthcare Quality. She is passionate about accelerating positive patient outcomes in health care by advancing the role of professional nurses and stimulating improvement in health systems.
Amanda von Trapp

Amanda von Trapp

Amanda von Trapp is a senior consultant in the International Development team at EY, advising multilateral institutions on building resilient systems and partnerships to navigate geopolitical risk and deliver on global mandates. With a background in diplomacy and strategy, Amanda brings a sharp analytical lens to the complex dynamics between policy and international cooperation.
Amanda Willett

Amanda Willett

Amanda Willett is president and CEO of Crown Agents USA. Crown Agents is an award-winning international development social enterprise, established in 1833. Its work reaches over 120 million people in 50 countries, with expertise in public sector transformation, humanitarian and stabilization, procurement reform, last mile supply chain, health system strengthening, and training and professional development. Amanda has over 20 years’ international development experience working on governance, political transition, post-conflict recovery, and humanitarian relief projects.