Meet the Devex Authors

Amolo Ng'weno

Amolo Ng'weno

Amolo Ng'weno is the CEO of BFA Global based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her recent areas of interest include the changing nature of work in low- and middle-income countries with the growth of the digital economy, and how technology can be harnessed to provide micro-entrepreneurs with the financial and technical tools for growth.
Amruta Byatnal

Amruta Byatnal

Amruta Byatnal is a Senior Editor at Devex where she edits coverage on global development, humanitarian crises and international aid. She writes Devex CheckUp, a weekly newsletter on the latest developments in global health. Previously, she worked for News Deeply in the United States, and The Hindu in India. She is a graduate of Cornell University where she studied international development. She is currently based in New Delhi.
Amy Booth

Amy Booth

Amy Booth is a freelance journalist based in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Her reporting focuses on development in Bolivia. She has written for The Guardian, New Internationalist, Bolivian Express, Latin Correspondent, and others. When she's not writing, she is an instructor in a youth arts foundation.
Amy Coughenour Betancourt

Amy Coughenour Betancourt

Amy Coughenour Betancourt is the chief executive officer of Cadasta Foundation. Cadasta Foundation develops and promotes the use of simple digital tools and technologies to create accessible records of land, housing, and resource rights.
Amy Dodd

Amy Dodd

Amy Dodd has been director of the U.K. Aid Network since 2012. UKAN is a network of U.K. NGOs that advocate for more and better aid through joint policy, research and lobbying. Amy has previously worked extensively in politics, policy and campaigning including most recently as an adviser in the Shadow International Development team in the U.K. Parliament focusing on gender, economic development, conflict and fragility and climate change issues. She studied economics and political science at the University of Sydney.
Amy Ekdawi

Amy Ekdawi

Amy Ekdawi is the co-director of the Arab Watch Coalition, a regional coalition of civil society from the Middle East and North Africa who work together to ensure development processes are inclusive, participatory, just, and sustainable for all. For the past 30 years, Amy has been working with pro-rights civil society movements around the world to promote social, economic, and environmental justice, with a specific focus on international financial institutions.
Amy E. Pope

Amy E. Pope

Amy E. Pope is the director general-elect of the International Organization for Migration.
Amy Fallon

Amy Fallon

Amy Fallon is an Australian freelance journalist currently based in Uganda. She has also reported from Australia, the U.K. and Asia, writing for a wide range of outlets on a variety of issues including breaking news, and international development, and human rights topics. Amy has also worked for News Deeply, NPR, The Guardian, AFP news agency, IPS, Citiscope, and others.
Amy Flood

Amy Flood

Amy Flood is the senior vice president of public affairs at Gilead Sciences, Inc. She joined Gilead in 2000 to manage communications for the launch of the company's first product for HIV and was appointed senior vice president of public affairs in March 2018. In this role, she is responsible for corporate and therapeutic area communications supporting the company's business and leading brands, employee communications, patient advocacy, and corporate giving programs. Prior to joining Gilead, Flood worked in health care public relations in New York and San Francisco. Flood is a member of the Arthur Page Society, a professional public relations organization; a member of the board of trustees for AIDS United, a national non-profit advocacy organization; and a member of the board of Point Source Youth, a non-profit working to end youth homelessness.
Amy Gildea

Amy Gildea

Amy Gildea is managing director of international development, Asia Pacific for Coffey, a Tetra Tech company based in Adelaide, Australia. Gildea leads Coffey’s international development business across Asia and the Pacific delivering solutions to development challenges for the Australian and New Zealand governments, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations.