Meet the Devex Authors

Joanna Lindner

Joanna Lindner

Joanna Lindner is the head of policy for aid and development effectiveness at the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID). She was previously the senior advocacy adviser and humanitarian coordinator with ACFID and has worked with members of all parties within the Australian Parliament at the Australian Reproductive Health Alliance where she led advocacy on women's empowerment, gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Prior to that she worked with the Asian South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education.
Joanna Mott

Joanna Mott

Joanna Mott has more than 20 years’ experience in international development, starting in 1995 at Puntos de Encuentro, a feminist rights-based NGO in Nicaragua. She has since worked on a range of NGO and government development programs in different countries. Her specialization in gender equality and social inclusion, or GESI, and WASH began in early 2000 in East Timor with Oxfam Australia and later with a rural WASH program of the Australian government. Joanna is currently a GESI adviser on the Water for Women Fund coordinator team.
Joanne Peter

Joanne Peter

Dr. Joanne Peter is a director of social innovation within Johnson & Johnson’s Global Community Impact team, with a focus on harnessing the power of technology to support and champion health workers at the frontlines of care. She manages a portfolio of scaled mobile messaging programs — including mMitra in India and MomConnect in South Africa — which have collectively reached over 6 million low-income mothers with vital health information since 2010.
Joannie Marlene Bewa

Joannie Marlene Bewa

Dr. Joannie Marlene Bewa founded the Young Beninese Leaders Association, a youth and women-led organization, and is a global advocate for women's health and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Joan Sara Thomas

Joan Sara Thomas

Joan Sara Thomas is interim deputy country director for Vital Strategies’ Asia-Pacific regional office in Singapore. With 10 years of experience in the field of global health management and development, Thomas has worked in North and Central America, the Middle East, and Asia. A central component of her current role includes building partnerships with national governments for public health improvement. She also holds expertise in civil registration and vital statistics improvement in the region.
João Felipe Scarpelini

João Felipe Scarpelini

Joao is a Brazilian-Italian activist and social entrepreneur that has been working on youth-led initiatives around the world for the last 13 years. Apart from his youth activism, Joao has worked professionally on the youth-issues in the field for the last eight years. Most recently, he has been working very closely with the UN system in specific youth empowerment projects and consulted for different agencies, including: UNFPA, UN-HABITAT, UNICEF, UNEP, UNFCCC and UNDESA. He is currently acting as the Strategic Advisor for UN-Habitat Youth Unit, in Nairobi.
Job Tiguem Poudiougo

Job Tiguem Poudiougo

Job Tiguem Poudiougo is a Malian professional involved in humanitarian protection, with several years' experience in GBV, child protection, and community advocacy. Currently an intern with the Aspen Global Innovators Group, he designs innovative projects focusing on resilience, local capacity-building, and the empowerment of community structures.
Jocelyn Cheng

Jocelyn Cheng

Jocelyn Cheng helps impact organizations unlock AI-powered efficiency, drawing on two decades at the nexus of impact investing and tech. After leading the venture investing arm of a global tech company and building the impact investing team at the Global Innovation Fund, she now drives results through ImpactAgent.
Jocelyn Johnston

Jocelyn Johnston

Jocelyn M. Johnston is professor of public administration and policy at American University. Her research focuses on government contracting, inter-organizational and inter-sectoral service collaboration, and intergovernmental programs. Her work appears in leading journals in public administration and policy.
Jocelyn Soto Medallo

Jocelyn Soto Medallo

Jocelyn Soto Medallo is an environmental and human rights lawyer. She is the deputy director of the International Accountability Project, an international human rights and environmental organization that supports communities in advancing community-led development and defending their rights.