Meet the Devex Authors

Mukhtar Sani

Mukhtar Sani

Mukhtar Sani is a monitoring and evaluation expert who works at the Clinton Health Access Initiative country office in Nigeria. Outside work, he hangs out with his family and plays video games with friends.
Munira Muhammad Abdul

Munira Muhammad Abdul

Munira Muhammad Abdul is from Nigeria. She studied biology education; is an international exchange alumna; a global youth ambassador for TheirWorld on quality education, and a youth mentor and a fellow of the Kectil Leadership program. She is the founder of the Pads With a Difference program, which aims to create menstrual health awareness and end period poverty in schoolgirls. She is also the co-founder of the End Malaria Initiative, which aims to fight malaria and empower women and children affected by the malaria epidemic in Nigeria.
Munkhtuya Altangerel

Munkhtuya Altangerel

Munkhtuya Altangerel serves as resident representative for the United Nations Development Programme Pacific Office in Fiji.
Murtala Mai

Murtala Mai

Murtala Mai is chief of country and program strategy at Pathfinder International. He joined Pathfinder in 2002 as project manager of the Private Sector Family Planning & Reproductive Health project in northern Nigeria. He then served as a country representative in Nigeria and Ghana before joining the Evidence to Action Project as senior technical adviser for community-based services. He later became E2A’s director of field support and then senior program director.
Musa Okwonga

Musa Okwonga

Musa Okwonga is a journalist, poet, broadcaster, musician, and PR consultant currently based in Berlin, Germany. He has written for several publications, including The Guardian, The New Statesman, ESPN and The New York Times, and is the author of two books on football, the first of which, A Cultured Left Foot, was nominated for the 2008 William Hill Sports Book of the Year. Find out more about his work at www.okwonga.com.
Mushtaque Chowdhury

Mushtaque Chowdhury

Mushtaque Chowdhury is the vice chairperson of BRAC, the world's largest NGO, based in Bangladesh, and founding dean of the James P. Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University.
Musonda Mumba

Musonda Mumba

Musonda Mumba is the secretary general of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.
Mwemezi Ngemera

Mwemezi Ngemera

Mwemezi Ngemera is a pharmacist and public health specialist with 20 years of experience working in Africa with government authorities and international nongovernmental organizations. He is the Africa regional lead with USP, working to improve the availability of safe, effective, and quality-assured medicines and related medical products on the continent.
Myriam Castañeda Solares

Myriam Castañeda Solares

Myriam Castañeda Solares is the external affairs and advocacy senior lead at Start Network, a global network of humanitarian NGOs. She has worked in public policy, political analysis, strategic communications, and advocacy campaigns across multidisciplinary fields. She holds a Master of Science in Social Policy and Development from the London School of Economics and a double Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations from Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala.