Meet the Devex Authors

Mark Kennedy

Mark Kennedy

Mark Kennedy is director of the Wilson Center’s Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition and president emeritus of the University of Colorado. Kennedy served as a U.S. representative from Minnesota from 2001 to 2007.
Mark Lotwis

Mark Lotwis

Mark Lotwis is the vice president of policy and government relations at InterAction, where he helps shape important policy decisions on humanitarian, relief and long-term development issues. Prior to InterAction, Lotwis served as senior director of campaign advocacy at the Save Darfur Coalition. He also worked as executive director of 21st century Democrats, as a partner of two leading media consulting firms and as chief of staff to U.S. Representative Ted Strickland.
Mark Lowcock

Mark Lowcock

In May 2017, Mark Lowcock of the United Kingdom was appointed as the under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs at the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and emergency relief coordinator. With over 30 years of humanitarian and development experience, Mr. Lowcock serves as the chief coordinator of the world’s humanitarian response in times of urgent crisis. In his most recent position, as permanent secretary for the Department for International Development, Mr. Lowcock led the United Kingdom’s humanitarian response to conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Libya as well as to natural disasters in the Philippines and Nepal.
Mark Lundell

Mark Lundell

Mark Lundell is the World Bank Country Director for Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros and Seychelles, with residence in Mozambique. An American national, Mark’s experience at the World Bank includes previous positions in Asia, South America, and Europe.
Mark Lundy

Mark Lundy

Mark Lundy is a senior scientist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture. His work focuses on the role of markets in reducing rural poverty including learning networks to increase capacities for enterprise development, the role of public agencies to promote market access, and how to establish and sustain effective trading relationships between buyers and smallholder farmers. He is lead author of guides on rural enterprise development, the LINK method on inclusive business models, and an active participant in multistakeholder forums focused on sustainability and smallholder inclusion.
Mark Maathuis

Mark Maathuis

Mark Maathuis worked as an international correspondent for United Press International and reported for several Dutch magazines and Web sites on American politics, the "war on terror" and legal issues. He holds two master's degrees, one in journalism from American University and the other in civil law from Leiden University. Mark has been a fellow in our Washington, D.C., office since November 2007. He is a native speaker of Dutch, fluent in English, proficient in French and German, and speaks basic Italian.
Mark Maathuis

Mark Maathuis

Mark Maathuis worked as an international correspondent for United Press International and reported for several Dutch magazines and Web sites on American politics, the "war on terror" and legal issues. He holds two master's degrees, one in journalism from American University and the other in civil law from Leiden University. Mark joined Devex in November 2007 as a fellow in our Washington, D.C., office and continued to contribute to our Web site the following year. He is a native speaker of Dutch, fluent in English, proficient in French and German, and speaks basic Italian.
Mark Malloch-Brown

Mark Malloch-Brown

Mark Malloch-Brown is the president of Open Society Foundations, the world’s largest private funder of human rights, and a former United Nations deputy secretary-general.
Mark McPeak

Mark McPeak

Mark McPeak is the international program director at ChildFund Australia and led ChildFund’s delegation to the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan. Mark’s work in international development and social justice began with two years in the Peace Corps in Ecuador. Since then, he has held a range of program and leadership roles across Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia and North America. Before joining ChildFund in 2009, Mark was the executive director of UUSC, a human rights and social justice organization working in the United States and overseas.
Mark Moore

Mark Moore

Mark Moore is the co-founder of MANA Nutrition, one of the world’s leading suppliers of Ready to Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), the front-line defense against severe acute malnutrition. A serial entrepreneur, Mark was an Unreasonable Institute Fellow in Boulder, CO in 2013 where he and others launched Active for Good, an effort to harvest excess calories in the US and send them into 500 calorie packets of RUTF. Active for Good now partners with the US Fund for UNICEF to run UNICEF Kid Power, the first ever fit for good tech platform. Prior to Mana, Mark lived and worked for ten years in Uganda, East Africa where he co-founded the KiboGroup.