Meet the Devex Authors

Lidy Nacpil

Lidy Nacpil

Lidy Nacpil is an activist working on economic, environmental, social, and gender justice issues in national, regional, and global campaigns. She is the coordinator of the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development, co-coordinator of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice, and member of the Coordinating Committee of the Global Alliance on Tax Justice. She also serves as the convener of the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice and vice president of the Freedom from Debt Coalition.
Lieze Langford

Lieze Langford

Lieze Langford is the partnership impact manager lead at Turn.io. She is focused on growth through business development, client success, and brand communications.
Lilianna Bagnoli

Lilianna Bagnoli

Lilianna Bagnoli is a project manager at Dimagi where she oversees a range of digital health projects including digital tools for COVID-19 response, digitally enabled vaccination campaigns, and mental health and well-being for health workers. Bagnoli was also selected for a Fulbright-Nehru research grant in India in 2018-2019 during which she conducted research with community health care workers in India to assess knowledge and practices surrounding child growth monitoring.
Lilianne Ploumen

Lilianne Ploumen

Lilianne Ploumen is an MP for the Dutch Labour party since March 2017. Prior to that she was the minister for foreign trade and development cooperation from 2012 to 2017. In that capacity, she launched the She Decides initiative in January 2017 to support the rights of girls and women to decide freely whether, when, with whom, and how many children they have.
Lina Abirafeh

Lina Abirafeh

Lina Abirafeh is the executive director of the Arab Institute for Women at the Lebanese American University and SheDecides Guiding Group member.
Lina Walker

Lina Walker

Lina Walker is senior vice president of global thought leadership for AARP, the largest nonprofit, nonpartisan organization in the United States dedicated to empowering Americans 50 and older to choose how they live as they age. Walker heads the AARP international and thought leadership departments, helping to strengthen public policies and private sector practices to enable all adults to live healthier and longer lives. She has deep and broad knowledge of aging issues and has held positions in academia, state government, congressional agencies, and the nonprofit sector to strengthen access to health care, long-term care, and financial security.
Linda Arnold

Linda Arnold

Linda Arnold is an associate professor of pediatrics in the section of emergency medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, and a Public Voices Fellow in the Yale Op-Ed project. She is chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Section on International Child Health, a member of the Academy's Global Immunization Advocacy Project Advisory Committee, and represents the AAP on both the Shot at Life global immunization initiative, and the Survive and Thrive Global Development Alliance.
Linda Mans

Linda Mans

Linda Mans is part of the Dutch civil society organization Wemos where she is a senior global health advocate on the Human Resources for Health project. She focuses on the role the Netherlands and Europe can play in contributing to solutions for solving the global health workforce crisis. Linda is the project coordinator of the European consortium project "Health workers for all and all for health workers," led by Wemos.
Linda McAvan

Linda McAvan

Linda McAvan is a British member of the European Parliament for the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats. She is the Chair of the European Parliament's Development Committee.
Linda Pfeiffer

Linda Pfeiffer

Linda Pfeiffer is founder, president and CEO of INMED Partnerships for Children. She is a pioneer in the formation of collaborative public-private partnerships that leverage the unique skills and resources of corporations, governments, and community groups, to sustain vital health, education, and community development programs around the world. Dr. Pfeiffer has a Ph.D. in anthropology and archaeology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Following teaching positions at the University of California and consulting roles with the World Bank, Dr. Pfeiffer directed programs for a humanitarian relief agency before founding INMED Partnerships for Children in 1986.