Meet the Devex Authors

Jeroo Billimoria

Jeroo Billimoria

Jeroo Billimoria is the founder of several innovative and award-winning NGOs and has over 20 years of experience running systems change organizations as a Skoll awardee, and an Ashoka and Schwab fellow. Among her previous organizations are Child and Youth Finance International, Aflatoun International, Childline India, and Child Helpline International, which have facilitated meaningful change in financial inclusion of youth and created a global movement for protection of children and youth in more than 180 countries. Billimoria is now founder of One Family Family Foundation, which incubates social innovations such as Catalyst 2030.
Jeson Ingraham

Jeson Ingraham

Jeson Ingraham manages partnerships and opportunities as program development director at TechnoServe, a nonprofit organization specializing in business solutions to poverty around the world.
Jesper Wohlert

Jesper Wohlert

Jesper Wohlert has more than 25 years’ experience in development cooperation and NGO management. He is currently the European partnerships director of Humana People to People, a network of global development and nongovernmental organizations working with local communities to tackle the world’s most pressing social and environmental problems. Each year, Humana People to People members collectively reach almost 15 million people worldwide, empowering positive change through development cooperation for the world’s most vulnerable and their communities. Humana Spain is the national member of Humana People to People.
Jess Ayers

Jess Ayers

Jess Ayers is CEO of Quadrature Climate Foundation, a charity focused on unlocking climate solutions. With 20 years of experience across government, the United Nations, and the third sector, she has led strategy, advised on policy, and contributed to IPCC reports as both an author and expert reviewer.
Jess Crombie

Jess Crombie

Jess Crombie is a researcher and scholar working as a senior lecturer at the University of the Arts London and as a consultant for some of the leading organizations in the humanitarian sector. In both contexts Jess utilizes almost two decades as a leader in the charity sector to explore the ethical complexities in narrative creation.
Jess Mack

Jess Mack

Jess Mack is the senior director for advocacy and communications at Global Health Corps. She leads communications and advocacy across the organization and oversees new fellow recruitment. Before joining GHC, Jess managed a large grant portfolio as a program officer on the global tobacco control policy and advocacy team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to that, Jess spent nearly five years as an independent communications and advocacy consultant in Asia, Africa, and the U.S. specializing in women’s rights and health.
Jess Oddy

Jess Oddy

After a decade working in the humanitarian education space, Jess Oddy set up Equity-Based EiE Consulting. It supports organizations, institutions, and academia to design and deliver equity-centered programs, policies, and research rooted in socially just, decolonial, and equity-based design thinking. She is a PhD candidate at the University of East London’s Centre for Migration, Refugee and Belonging. Her research focuses on diverse young people’s educational experiences in emergencies and how colonial legacies influence the types of programs available for youth in displacement situations.
Jessamy Nichols

Jessamy Nichols

Jessamy Nichols is a senior activity manager on USAID INVEST, an initiative of the Private Sector Engagement Hub at the U.S. Agency for International Development that mobilizes private capital for better development outcomes.
Jesse Chase-Lubitz

Jesse Chase-Lubitz

Jesse Chase-Lubitz covers climate change and multilateral development banks for Devex. She previously worked at Nature Magazine, where she received a Pulitzer grant for an investigation into land reclamation. She has written for outlets such as Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, and The Japan Times, among others. Jesse holds a master’s degree in Environmental Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics.
Jesse Coleman

Jesse Coleman

Jesse Coleman is the mHealth program manager at Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Institute in Johannesburg and a researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand. Jesse has headed a number of technology-focused mHealth projects covering HIV, TB, maternal health and adolescents’ health in Kenya, Canada and South Africa. He is also a candidate for Ph.D. in public health at Karolinska Institute where he is comparing maternal health and HIV outcomes of MAMA text message users with non-users.