Meet the Devex Authors

Mason Ingram

Mason Ingram

Mason Ingram is global governance director at Pact, where he oversees technical assistance and learning across a portfolio of civil society, local governance, and peacebuilding programs. Mason has 15 years of experience designing, advising, and managing international development programs, with a focus on civil society and governance programming.
Masood Ahmed

Masood Ahmed

Masood Ahmed is president of the Center for Global Development and previously spent two decades driving economic development policy initiatives relating to debt, aid effectiveness, trade, and global economic prospects at the World Bank.
Masum Billah

Masum Billah

Masum Billah is an award-winning journalist based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, covering human rights, politics, migration, climate, and environment, as well as the economy. His pieces have appeared in The Guardian, Nikkei Asia, South China Morning Post, Al Jazeera English, and VICE, among others. You can find him on the social media platform X @BillahTalks.
Mat Nashed

Mat Nashed

Mat Nashed is a veteran journalist specializing in the Middle East and northern Africa. Over the last decade, he has reported extensively on Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia, and Sudan, with a focus on state repression, humanitarian crises, geopolitics, and migration. His work has appeared in international outlets such as Al-Jazeera, VICE, DW News, OZY, The New Humanitarian, and the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Mathangi Swaminathan

Mathangi Swaminathan

Mathangi Swaminathan is an alumna of the Harvard Kennedy School and was awarded the 2019 Jane Mansbridge Research Award by Harvard University for her work on reducing gender bias in organizations. She is currently a Foster America fellow leading anti-racist data-driven research and evaluation efforts at Olmsted County’s health, housing, and human services agency in Minnesota to prevent abuse against children and improve diversity in the workforce.
Mathieu Vervynckt

Mathieu Vervynckt

Mathieu Vervynckt is a research and policy analyst focusing on publicly-backed private finance at the European Network on Debt and Development.
Mathilde Tréguier

Mathilde Tréguier

Mathilde Tréguier is working in Myanmar on peace issues and questions related to intercommunal violence. She graduated in 2014 from the London School of Economics and Political Science with an MSc in International Relations. She also holds an MSc in Management from the EMLyon Business School.
Mathuram Santosham

Mathuram Santosham

Dr. Mathuram Santosham is chair for the Rotavirus Organization of Technical Allies (ROTA) Council, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, and senior advisor for the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins University, where he is also a professor of international health and pediatrics.
Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti

Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti

Dr. Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti is the World Health Organization Regional Director for Africa and is currently based in Brazzaville, The Republic of Congo.
Matt Andrews

Matt Andrews

Matt Andrews is associate professor of public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School. His research focuses on public sector reform, particularly budgeting and financial management reform, and participatory governance in developing and transitional governments.