Meet the Devex Authors

Joia Mukherjee

Joia Mukherjee

Joia Mukherjee, a physician, is the chief medical officer at Partners In Health, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and an associate professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her latest book is "An Introduction to Global Health Delivery."
Joke Oudelaar

Joke Oudelaar

Joke Oudelaar is the head of program management for AGRI3 fund at Rabobank, an independently managed blended finance fund for sustainable agriculture. Prior to this, Oudelaar fulfilled many different management roles within Rabobank. Most recently, she took part in Rabobank’s Moonshot program for the purpose of finding innovative succession solutions for farmers.
Joky François

Joky François

Joky François is the global lead on gender at the Rainforest Alliance.
Jolyne Sanjak

Jolyne Sanjak

Dr. Jolyne Sanjak currently is a senior associate on Tetra Tech's land tenure and property rights team. She is an experienced executive and technical expert dedicated to international development. Her passion is to see a world with secure land rights for women and men. Her areas of expertise include sustainable development, rural and urban land governance, monitoring and evaluation, and other areas of international development. She has a Ph.D. focused on agricultural economics and international development from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jon Abramson

Jon Abramson

Dr. Jon Abramson is head of Pediatrics at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. A leading global vaccine expert, Abramson chairs the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization, the principal advisory group to the World Health Organization on vaccines and immunization. The views expressed in this article are the author's own.
Jon Banner

Jon Banner

Jon Banner is executive vice president of Global Communications and president of PepsiCo Foundation at PepsiCo. He assumed the Global Communications position in May 2014, where he leads PepsiCo's communications across all business units and global sectors, and reports to PepsiCo Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ramon Laguarta. In September 2017, Banner assumed additional responsibility as president of the PepsiCo Foundation, the company's philanthropic arm with a nearly 60-year legacy of investing in community impact. He reimagined the Foundation's role in advancing a more sustainable food system through partnerships and philanthropic investments to alleviate hunger, manage water and waste responsibly, and support female change agents.
Jon Fairest

Jon Fairest

Jon Fairest heads Sanofi’s Global Health Unit, leading strategy and implementation for the not-for-profit, sustainable social business that aims to expand access to 30 Sanofi medicines, largely focused on noncommunicable diseases, in 40 countries with the highest unmet medical needs. Jon joined Sanofi in 2002 and has held positions of increasing responsibility since, including General Manager roles in Bulgaria, Finland, Portugal and Canada before taking the position of Head of Africa Region. In 2019, he became head of external affairs for Eurasia, Middle East, and Africa and served as head of trade and revenue management, a transversal organization across Sanofi’s global business units.
Jon Pender

Jon Pender

Jon Pender is vice president in GSK’s government affairs team. As such, he ensures that GSK’s approach to sustainably improving access to medicines in the developing world reaches as many people in need as possible, whilst protecting the fundamental business model which underpins the research-based pharmaceutical industry.
Jon Sward

Jon Sward

Jon Sward is the environment project manager at the Bretton Woods Project, a U.K.-based World Bank and IMF watchdog, and leads BWP’s climate advocacy on both institutions. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex, U.K.
Jonathan Cohen

Jonathan Cohen

Jonathan Cohen is director of the Open Society Foundations’ public health program.