Meet the Devex Authors

Karina Kloos

Karina Kloos

Karina Kloos is an advocacy program manager and has worked at the intersection between research and advocacy for the past ten years, with a PhD in sociology. Currently she is helping to guide Landesa's work examining the links between climate change and land rights.
Karin Costa Vazquez

Karin Costa Vazquez

Karin Costa Vazquez is an international adviser and researcher specialized in international cooperation for development, strategic planning and operations. She has worked with the World Bank, U.N. Development Program, and the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations, and published extensively on BRICS's contribution to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Karl Hofmann

Karl Hofmann

Karl Hofmann is president and CEO of Population Services International, a Washington, D.C.-based global health nonprofit focused on family planning and reproductive health, malaria, child survival, HIV, maternal and child health, and NCDs. Before joining the organization in 2007, he was a career U.S. diplomat for 23 years, serving as ambassador to Togo, executive secretary of the Department of State and deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Paris.
Karl Hofmann

Karl Hofmann

Karl Hofmann is the president and CEO of Population Services International, a nonprofit global health organization based in Washington, D.C. PSI operates in over 50 countries worldwide with programs in family planning and reproductive health; malaria; water and sanitation; HIV; and noncommunicable diseases. For nearly 50 years, PSI has measurably improved the health of people in the developing world, making it easier for them to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire.
Karol Boudreaux

Karol Boudreaux

Karol Boudreaux is Director for Investments at the Omidyar Network. With more than a decade of experience in the international land tenure and property rights space, first as an academic at George Mason University and later with USAID, she currently oversees property rights in emerging markets. Her work supports individuals, organizations and efforts to improve the land tenure and property rights of people around the world.
Karol Boudreaux

Karol Boudreaux

As a member of the Cloudburst Group’s expanding Natural Resources Management business unit, Karol Boudreaux develops and implements innovative approaches to international development and engagement with the private sector. Her work focuses on legal and policy analysis, private sector investment and tenure risk assessment, mitigation planning, as well as monitoring and evaluation.
Karolina Olofsson

Karolina Olofsson

Karolina Olofsson is the director of advocacy and communications for Integrity Watch Afghanistan. She specializes in institution and capacity building of post-war governments on legislative accountability, transparency, compliance with international law and inclusion of civil society participation. Olofsson has worked on policy issues related to good governance with national institutions, donors, nonstate actors, political missions and aid agencies in countries such as Lebanon, Kosovo and Darfur.
Karoline Heitmann

Karoline Heitmann

Karoline Heitmann is a Ph.D student specializing in pathways towards resilient social enterprises at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. While she wrote the article, she was corporate initiative manager at the European Venture Philanthropy Association and leading its research on corporate social investing.
Karthikeyan Hemalatha

Karthikeyan Hemalatha

Karthikeyan Hemalatha is a freelance journalist in Chennai. He writes on international politics, marine ecology, climate change, and agriculture. He won the Statesman awards for rural reporting and a special mention by RedInk Awards in 2018.
Kasper Engborg

Kasper Engborg

Kasper Engborg is currently the head of OCHA in Tacloban, Philippines, which has been the regional hub for coordinating support in response Typhoon Haiyan. He has more than 18 years of international humanitarian and development experience in interagency coordination and programming in chronic and complex emergencies, natural disasters and post-conflict settings. Engborg has also worked with UNHCR, UNICEF and the Danish Red Cross, and in several countries including Eritrea, Georgia, Laos, Kosovo, Palestinian territories, Malawi, Iraq, Jordan, Uganda, North Korea and the Philippines.