Meet the Devex Authors

Nalini Saligram

Nalini Saligram

Nalini Saligram is the CEO and founder of Arongya World, a nonprofit committed to prevent noncommunicable diseases through health education and lifestyle change. Saligram has a doctorate in biochemistry from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She also serves on the Dean's Council at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
Nana Asantewa Afadzinu

Nana Asantewa Afadzinu

Nana Asantewa Afadzinu leads the West Africa Civil Society Institute, or WACSI, with over 26 years championing governance, human rights, and African transformation. A trained lawyer with a doctorate in African Philanthropy, she serves on a number of boards including Oxfam GB while advocating for equity across the continent as a recognized influential African leader.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Nana Taona Kuo

Nana Taona Kuo

Nana Taona Kuo is senior manager at the executive office of the U.N. Secretary-General for Every Woman Every Child, a U.N. global campaign that hopes to save the lives of 16 million women and children by 2015 by engaging governments, multilaterals, the private sector and civil society to address major health challenges facing women and children around the world. Kuo previously worked for UNAIDS.
Nancy Aossey

Nancy Aossey

Nancy A. Aossey is president and CEO of International Medical Corps, a preeminent first responder delivering medical relief and training programs in areas hardest-hit by war, natural disaster, and disease. Aossey joined International Medical Corps as its startup CEO, shortly after its founding in 1984. She scaled the organization from a handful of employees to 8,200 staff and thousands of volunteers working on the frontlines of crises in 40 countries.
Nancy Birdsall

Nancy Birdsall

Nancy Birdsall is president emeritus and a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, which she co-founded in 2001. Prior to launching the center, Birdsall served for 14 years in research, policy, and management roles at the World Bank, and was executive vice-president of the Inter-American Development Bank.
Nancy Lee

Nancy Lee

Nancy Lee is a senior policy fellow and Director for Sustainable Development Finance at the Center for Global Development. Her work at CGD focuses on the role and performance of multilateral development banks and development finance institutions, mobilizing private development finance, blended finance, sovereign debt restructuring architecture, public-private infrastructure finance, and gender lens investing. Previously, she served as the deputy chief executive officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, as the CEO of the Multilateral Investment Fund (now the IDB Lab) at the Inter-American Development Bank, and before that as a deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Treasury Department.
Nancy Lindborg

Nancy Lindborg

Nancy Lindborg is the president and CEO of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. The foundation awards more than $300 million in grants domestically and internationally to advance its mission of working with people and communities to create enduring solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world.
Nancy McGuire Choi

Nancy McGuire Choi

Nancy McGuire Choi is a social enterprise executive with nearly 15 years of experience in information management, technology innovation and international development. She is the chief operating officer at Development Gateway, an international social enterprise that creates digital tools and conducts applied research to improve evidence-based policymaking. Nancy holds an M.S. in foreign service from Georgetown University and a B.A. in anthropology from Harvard University.
Nancy G. Brinker

Nancy G. Brinker

Nancy G. Brinker is founder of The Promise Fund of Florida and Susan G. Komen. Brinker is also an adviser to GLG Consultants and Hologic, which manufactures both Pap and HPV tests.