Meet the Devex Authors

Naomi Mihara

Naomi Mihara

Naomi Mihara is an Associate Editor for Devex, working on creative and audiovisual projects. She has a background in journalism and international development, having previously served as an assistant correspondent for Japanese newspaper The Yomiuri Shimbun and as a communications officer for the International Organization for Migration in Southeast Asia. She holds a master’s degree in Multimedia Journalism from Bournemouth University.
Naser Haghamed

Naser Haghamed

Naser Haghamed is the chief executive officer of Islamic Relief Worldwide. Naser has over 25 years of expertise in both the private and third sector, running company-wide operational functions, leading complex projects from inception to successful completion, and making sound strategic decisions. Naser has also served on the boards of various private and third sector organizations.
Na’Shantéa Miller

Na’Shantéa Miller

Na’Shantéa Miller is strategy associate at the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery and is completing the Master in Public Policy program at Harvard University, with a specialization in business and government. With this degree, she hopes to gain the skills to incentivize more meaningful community and corporate initiatives as sustainable solutions to social problems.
Nassreena Sampaco-Baddiri

Nassreena Sampaco-Baddiri

Nassreena Sampaco-Baddiri is chair of the Khadija Center for Muslim Women Studies, a research and policy advocacy center aimed at empowering Muslim women in the Philippines. She recently served as regional secretary of the Department of Tourism in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, where she spearheaded a tourism road map and pursued sustainable community-based tourism development for the region. Nassreena is a Devex Manila 40 Under 40 global development leader.
Natalia Kanem

Natalia Kanem

Natalia Kanem was appointed executive director of the United Nations Population Fund in October 2017, becoming the fund's fifth executive director since it became operational in 1969. She has more than 30 years of strategic leadership experience in the fields of medicine, public and reproductive health, peace, social justice, and philanthropy.
Natalie Alm

Natalie Alm

Natalie Alm is a communications advisor for the USAID INVEST project at DAI, with over a decade of experience fostering collaboration and partnership between the public and private sectors.
Natalie Bridgeman Fields

Natalie Bridgeman Fields

Natalie Bridgeman Fields is the founder and executive director of Accountability Counsel. She leads the organization of community-driven lawyers, policy advocates, and researchers, working to amplify the voices of people to defend their environmental and human rights. Previously, she served as a consultant on accountability for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank Inspection Panel.
Natalie Bugalski

Natalie Bugalski

Natalie Bugalski is co-founder and legal director of Inclusive Development International. A human rights lawyer with expertise in housing, land and property rights, over the past decade Bugalski has done advocacy work on land tenure policy, resettlement and displacement issues at local and international level, including U.N. agencies, ADB and the World Bank.
Natalie Dawe

Natalie Dawe

Natalie Dawe is the global health initiatives manager for IBM Corporate Citizenship. In her role, Natalie sets and executes strategy to bring IBM’s expertise in data, technology, and design to help organizations around the world fight health disparities. Natalie also co-developed and continues to manage IBM Health Corps, a social impact program that incubates solutions to health challenges through rapid prototyping.