Meet the Devex Authors

John Goodman

John Goodman

John Goodman is a former associate director at the Carter Center’s Conflict Resolution Program and the current director of the Syracuse University Center in Strasbourg, France.
John Goodwin

John Goodwin

John Goodwin joined The LEGO Foundation as CEO in April 2017 to pursue a career where he could combine his business skills with his passion for philanthropy and driving positive social impact. Prior to this role, Mr. Goodwin held a position as executive vice president and chief financial officer of the LEGO Group. He also previously served as a president in Procter & Gamble.
John Graham

John Graham

John Graham is the country director for Save the Children in Ethiopia. He has been working in the country since 1997, but his first involvement with Ethiopia goes back to before the 1984 famine when he supported cross-border operations into the liberated zones in Tigray and Eritrea. In his current role he leads Save the Children's diverse programming in Ethiopia addressing education, health, food security, HIV/AIDS prevention/education and saving newborn lives.
John Groarke

John Groarke

John Groarke is USAID Mission Director in Haiti since August 2013. An expert in international law and counter-insurgency, he previously served in hotspots like Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt and Morocco, as well as senior legal advisor for West Africa and South Asia.
John Hattie

John Hattie

John Hattie is an Emeritus Laureate Professor at the Melbourne graduate school of education at the University of Melbourne, co-director of the Hattie Family Foundation, and chair of the Board of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership. His areas of interest are measurement models and their applications to education’s problems, and models of teaching and learning.
John Hendra

John Hendra

John Hendra is former deputy executive director for policy and program at UN Women. He is now serving as Senior Coordinator, UN “Fit for Purpose” for the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
John Hewko

John Hewko

John Hewko is the general secretary of Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation. From 2004 to 2009, Hewko was vice president for operations and compact development for the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S. government agency established in 2004 to deliver foreign assistance to the world’s poorest countries. At MCC, he was the principal U.S. negotiator for foreign assistance agreements to 26 countries in Africa, Asia, South America, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. As general secretary, Hewko leads a diverse staff of 800 at Rotary International’s world headquarters in Evanston, Illinois, USA, and seven international offices.
John Hoddinott

John Hoddinott

John Hoddinott is the H.E. Babcock Professor of Food and Nutrition Economics and Policy at Cornell University.
John Kohler

John Kohler

John Kohler is the director of impact capital at Santa Clara University’s Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship.
John Kufour

John Kufour

John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor was the second president of the Fourth Republic of Ghana and chairperson of the African Union. He has also championed efforts to end hunger, becoming a partner in 2008 in the World Food Programme’s Fill the Cup drive to provide nutritious school meals to millions of hungry children, and was a joint winner of the World Food Prize 2011. He is currently the chairman of the Sanitation and Water for All partnership and a special envoy for the Partnership on Neglected Tropical Diseases.