Meet the Devex Authors

Jessica McGlyn

Jessica McGlyn

With over 20 years of private sector and NGO experience, Jessica’s company Catalynics provides support for corporate sustainability, social responsibility, and sustainable development strategy, implementation, partnerships, stakeholder engagement and policy. She’s led programs at World Business Council for Sustainable Development, World Wildlife Fund, and International Paper.
Jessica Neuwirth

Jessica Neuwirth

Jessica Neuwirth is the founder of Donor Direct Action, an international women's organisation, which partners with visionary front-line women's groups around the world. She has 30 years of experience in international women's rights and development.
Jessica Osborn

Jessica Osborn

Jessica Osborn is an adviser at Caribou Digital and jointly leads the Mastercard Foundation learning partnership, which has focused on financial inclusion and access to meaningful and dignified work. Jessica also leads Caribou Digital’s Live Learning program which provides bespoke immersive study visits to emerging markets. Jessica has worked in digital technology in Africa for over 13 years.
Jessica Troell

Jessica Troell

Jessica Troell is an international development and environmental lawyer, and director of the international water program at the Environmental Law Institute.
Jessica Woodroffe

Jessica Woodroffe

Jessica Woodroffe is director of the Gender and Development Network, a U.K. based coalition of over 100 NGOs and experts, which works in partnership with women’s rights organizations internationally to advocate for gender equality and women’s rights. Her nearly 30 years’ experience of research and advocacy covers gender equality, international financial institutions, and economic empowerment issues in roles such as director of policy and campaigns at ActionAid UK, head of policy and campaigns at the World Development Movement, and policy officer at Christian Aid.
Jessica  Espey

Jessica Espey

Jessica is a development policy advisor working on issues of international aid and development financing. She's also developing Save the Children's work on gender, partly in partnership with the gender policy stream of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre. Previously, Jessica focused on child poverty and gender at the Overseas Development Institute. The views expressed here are her own.
Jill Sheffield

Jill Sheffield

Jill Sheffield is the founder and President of Women Deliver, an international advocacy organization that convenes global leaders to galvanize action to improve the health and well-being of girls and women. Sheffield is a global educator and advocate who has worked to promote women’s health and rights around the world for more than three decades.
Jim Campbell

Jim Campbell

Jim Campbell is the director of the health workforce department at the World Health Organization. He oversees the development and implementation of global public goods, evidence and tools to inform national and international investments in the education, development and retention of the health and social sector workforce in pursuit of global health security, universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Jim Emerson

Jim Emerson

Jim Emerson is CEO of VSO International. With over 35 years of development experience at global, regional, national and community levels in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Emerson was previously secretary-general of the ChildFund Alliance and before had a long career with Plan International, serving in several positions including CEO, CFO and COO as well as emergency response leader in Haiti.