Meet the Devex Authors

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.
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.