Meet the Devex Authors

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.
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.