Meet the Devex Authors

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.
Amy Goldman

Amy Goldman

As CEO and chair of GHR Foundation, Amy Rauenhorst Goldman directs the work of the organization, which applies entrepreneurial creativity and universal Catholic values to foster hope and opportunity where it is needed most.
Amy Ho

Amy Ho

Amy Ho is the head of disease areas at Roche Diagnostics Asia Pacific.
Amy Ibold

Amy Ibold

Amy Ibold is a senior advisor on adolescent girls and youth for Mercy Corps. In this role, she supports Mercy Corps’ youth portfolio, spanning more than 25 countries, with a focus on programming that supports youth, and particularly adolescent girls, to secure the knowledge, skills, and social networks they need for successful lives and futures. Amy has 15 years of experience in initiatives that target adolescents and youth; foster gender equality; and improve rural development. She holds a master of science in rural sociology from the University of Missouri and a bachelor of arts in journalism from University of Oregon.