Meet the Devex Authors

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.
Jonathan Cushing

Jonathan Cushing

Jonathan Cushing is Transparency International’s global health programme director. He leads the strategic development and implementation of Transparency International’s work to improve transparency and accountability in health systems globally.
Jonathan Glennie

Jonathan Glennie

Jonathan Glennie is a senior fellow at the Joep Lange Institute and was recently a visiting fellow at the International Development Institute at King’s College London. He has held senior positions in several international organizations (including Save the Children, ODI, Christian Aid) and was director of the Sustainable Development Research Centre at Ipsos Mori. He has written regularly for The Guardian‘s Global Development website and is the author of "The Trouble with Aid: Why Less Could Mean More for Africa" and "Aid, Growth and Poverty."
Jonathan Goodhand

Jonathan Goodhand

Jonathan Goodhand is professor of conflict and development studies at SOAS University of London. He is also the principal investigator of Drugs & (dis)order — a large U.K.-funded project — in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Myanmar.
Jonathan Jay

Jonathan Jay

Jonathan S. Jay is an attorney, bioethicist and senior writer for Management Sciences for Health, a global nonprofit that develops sustainable health systems in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Previously affiliated with Georgetown University and the National Institutes of Health, Jay serves as coordinator of Health for All Post-2015, a global campaign of civil society organizations advocating for universal health coverage in the post-2015 development agenda.
Jonathan Klein

Jonathan Klein

Jonathan Klein is co-founder and chairman of Getty Images, Inc., and serves as chair of the Board of Friends of the Global Fight. He has received numerous media and philanthropic awards, including the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria’s 2005 award for “Business Excellence for Innovation.” Mr. Klein also serves on the Board of Directors of Grassroot Soccer and the Advisory Board of GBC Health.