Joseph Marks is a Devex correspondent based in Washington, D.C., where he covers stories related to international development, economics, diplomacy and foreign policy. He has written about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, homeland security, technology, global Internet freedom, trade and U.S. law.

Dr. Joseph Muscat is prime minister of Malta, one of the fastest growing economies in Europe. He led the Labour Party to a landslide win in March 2013 at the age of 39 and secured another landslide victory in June 2017. He is an economist and journalist and a former member of the European Parliament. He has been leader of the Labour Party for 10 years.

Joseph Nhan-O’Reilly is the head of education policy and advocacy at Save the Children. He was elected to the newly constituted Global Partnership for Education Board in 2010 and again in 2012. From 2014 to 2017, Joseph was the inaugural chair of the board’s Strategy and Policy Committee. He was a member of the group that designed Education Cannot Wait and serves on its Executive Committee and is the Chair of the Global Book Alliance. These are his personal views and not the official position of any of the above agencies.

Josette Gbemudu is the executive director of health equity for MSD. Josette leads MSD’s U.S. health equity division, helping to ensure a focus on health equity is embedded across the organization. Collaborating with key business functions, she develops and leads the execution of a unified health equity strategy. With more than 10 years of experience at MSD, Josette has led private sector contracting in the company’s U.S. vaccines organization, scientific strategy for its anesthesia and surgery marketing franchise, and played an instrumental role in building its U.S. commercial strategy.

Josh Lozman is deputy director of program advocacy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In this role, he leads the foundation’s advocacy strategies in the areas of agriculture, family health and financial services for the poor.

Josh joined Devex's Washington office in early 2010 as an international development correspondent covering U.S. aid reform, the D.C. development scene and Latin America. He previously served as a marketing communications coordinator for TechnoServe, a news production specialist for the Associated Press and a news desk assistant for the PBS NewsHour. He has reported for publications in Caracas, Chicago, Madrid, New Delhi, Philadelphia, and Washington, and holds a bachelor's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

Joshua Schoop is the principal director for technology and innovation at the Federation of American Scientists and director and co-founder of the Day One Project. Dr. Schoop has developed innovation policy with public sector and international organizations including the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in International Development from Tulane Law School.

Joy Marini is executive director, global community impact at Johnson & Johnson, a position she assumed in 2007 following six years with the Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute. Joy leads the company’s global philanthropy focused on improving health for women and girls. She is responsible for Johnson & Johnson’s international programs on maternal and infant health, child health, and women and girls’ empowerment as part of the company’s commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Ms. Joy Phumaphi is the executive secretary of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance, a groundbreaking coalition of African Union heads of state and government working to eliminate malaria in Africa by 2030. She leads the ALMA Secretariat in supporting the heads of state and government’s agenda to drive accountability and action for results, public and private domestic resource mobilization for malaria, neglected tropical diseases, and other priorities in Africa’s health development agenda. She also chairs the RBM Partnership to End Malaria.