Meet the Devex Authors

Jesse Griffiths

Jesse Griffiths

Jesse Griffiths has been Eurodad director since 2012 and is responsible for strategic planning, fundraising, network building, research, and advocacy. Jesse was previously the coordinator of the Bretton Woods Project, and also headed ActionAid UK’s aid and development finance policy group, worked for the U.K. Department for International Development in Nigeria, and in their environment policy department, as well as for other NGOs in the U.K. and elsewhere on both development finance and international environmental policy.
Jesse Worker

Jesse Worker

Jesse Worker is an associate with the Access Initiative at the World Resources Institute. He manages the Environmental Democracy Index, a new effort launching in early 2015 that will benchmark procedural rights of environmental democracy around the world. He also leads the Access Initiative's work on climate change adaptation and collaborates with WRI's Water Program to integrate water governance metrics and improve usability of water risk measurement tools for civil society.
Jessica Abrahams

Jessica Abrahams

Jessica Abrahams is a former editor of Devex Pro. She helped to oversee news, features, data analysis, events, and newsletters for Devex Pro members. Before that, she served as deputy news editor and as an associate editor, with a particular focus on Europe. She has also worked as a writer, researcher, and editor for Prospect magazine, The Telegraph, and Bloomberg News, among other outlets. Based in London, Jessica holds graduate degrees in journalism from City University London and in international relations from Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals.
Jessica Cooke

Jessica Cooke

Since joining Plan International in 2016, Jessica Cooke has provided technical and policy expertise on climate change and resilience. She currently leads Plan International’s climate change policy agenda and chairs the internal climate change and resilience network. She works on a global level to support strategic thought leadership on resilience for Plan International’s priority areas, including school safety, and delivers expertise and training in these subjects.
Jessica Daly

Jessica Daly

Jessica Daly is director of global health for the Medtronic Foundation, where she focuses on building strategic alliances with governments, nonprofits, associations, and other foundations to improve public health outcomes.
Jessica Ernst

Jessica Ernst

Jessica Ernst is manager of agriculture and electrical power at the Initiative for Global Development, a nonprofit that engages a global network of corporate leaders to reduce poverty through business growth and investment in Africa. In this role, Jessica manages relationships and programming with engaged companies and authors expert agriculture and public-private partnership materials.
Jessica Faieta

Jessica Faieta

Jessica Faieta is the U.N. assistant secretary-general and U.N. Development Program regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean. She has worked as senior country director in Haiti, leading UNDP's recovery and reconstruction efforts in the country after the 2010 earthquake. She has held various positions in U.N. offices in El Salvador, Belize, Cuba, Panama and Argentina. Jessica holds a master's degree in business administration and another in international affairs, both from Columbia University. She is also a Yale University World Fellow.
Jessica Ilunga

Jessica Ilunga

Jessica Ilunga is a communications consultant specializing in African markets. She used to work for africapractice in London where she advised clients from the financial, mining, international development, education and agricultural sectors. She holds an LLM in European and international law from the Catholic University of Leuven and an M.Sc. in global politics from the London School of Economics.
Jessica Lomelin

Jessica Lomelin

Jessica Lomelin is regional online communications specialist for Asia with Plan International. Previously, she worked for the office of U.N. Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women Rashida Manjoo.
Jessica Mackenzie

Jessica Mackenzie

Jessica Mackenzie is a research fellow for the research and policy in development program at ODI. Her work focuses on decision-making in policy formulation, research uptake and how to improve the role of knowledge in policy-making particularly within developing countries.