Meet the Devex Authors

Jim Fruchterman

Jim Fruchterman

Jim Fruchterman is an engineer and social entrepreneur. He was the founder and longtime CEO at Benetech, a Silicon Valley nonprofit technology company that develops software applications to address unmet needs of users in the social sector. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship and the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
Jim Jarvie

Jim Jarvie

Jim Jarvie is Mercy Corps’ network director transitioning the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network to a practitioner-based membership platform. He previously led development of Mercy Corps’ global programs in climate change and environment, focusing on Southeast Asia. He is a biologist with 20 years of experience, previously working on natural resource management, conservation and conflict.
Jim O’Neill

Jim O’Neill

Jim O’Neill is senior adviser to Chatham House, chair of Northern Gritstone, former commercial secretary to the U.K. Treasury, and former chief economist of Goldman Sachs.
Jim Richardson

Jim Richardson

Jim Richardson is a participant at the Consensus for Development Reform and has over 20 years of experience as an independent consultant. He is the former director of the Office of Foreign Assistance in the U.S. Department of State, where he coordinated $35 billion in foreign assistance across the State Department and the USAID, ensuring policy, performance, and budget alignment. Before that, he served as coordinator at USAID’s Transformation Task Team, where he led the Agency’s historic reorganization to reshape the agency around the principle of “Ending the Need for Foreign Assistance.”
Jim Taylor

Jim Taylor

Jim Taylor is the co-founder of Proximity Designs, a Myanmar-based social enterprise, with his wife Debbie Aung Din in 2004. He has worked in the Mississippi Delta, Cambodia, Indonesia, and California, engaging the nonprofit, public and corporate sectors. He has an MPA from the Harvard Kenedy School and an MBA from The University of Southern California.
Jim Winkler

Jim Winkler

Jim Winkler is DAI's senior trade and investment advisor and was formerly team leader of the Vietnam Competitiveness Initiative, based in Hanoi.
Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim, M.D., Ph.D., is the 12th president of the World Bank Group. His career has revolved around health, education, and improving the lives of the poor. Kim has received a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, was recognized as one of America's "25 Best Leaders" by U.S. News & World Report, and was named one of TIME magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World."
Jimmy Leak

Jimmy Leak

Jimmy Leak has designed and managed early grades literacy programs in East Africa. He currently serves as the Education Program Strategic Adviser for Nuru International. While completing his Ph.D. in education and policy and social context at the University of California, Irvine, he was named a 2011-2012 Public Impact Fellow for his research on teachers and early grades student achievement.
Jimmy Tuhaise

Jimmy Tuhaise

Jimmy Tuhaise is a deployable emergency response manager at Plan International. He also previously worked for nongovernmental organizations Intermon Oxfam and the Islamic Relief Worldwide.
Jin Liqun

Jin Liqun

Jin Liqun is president and chair of the board of directors at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Before being elected as the bank’s first president, he served as secretary-general of the multilateral interim secretariat tasked with establishing the bank. He previously served as vice president and then ranking vice president of the Asian Development Bank and as alternate executive director for China at the World Bank and at the Global Environment Facility.