Meet the Devex Authors

Neetu John

Neetu John

Neetu John is a sexual and reproductive health specialist at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). She is a public health expert whose work has focused on sexual and reproductive health, and its intersection with gender, socioeconomic disparities, and broader developmental processes.
Neha Bhatt

Neha Bhatt

Neha Bhatt is a Delhi-based, award-winning journalist who has been reporting on development, social justice, and culture for over 17 years, with a focus on policy, gender, public health, human rights, education, and the environment. Her work has been published in The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, The BMJ, Devex, Nat Geo, Al Jazeera, and Vice, among other international and Indian publications.
Neha Karki

Neha Karki

Neha Karki is a youth advocate from Nepal for Plan International. She is a communication, documentation and learning assistant at the Social Changemakers and Innovators, or SOCHAI, a young women-led nonprofit organization working to improve the health, nutrition, and socioeconomic status of women, children, and girls in Nepal. She is a member of the EU Youth Sounding Board Nepal and pursues development studies.
Neha Mankani

Neha Mankani

Neha Mankani is a public health practitioner and a midwife. She is the founder of the Mama Baby Fund, a financial emergency response fund for maternal and neonatal health in Pakistan. She works at the Indus Health Network where she has developed a purpose built midwife led birthing facility in remote Pakistan.
Neha Sanghrajka

Neha Sanghrajka

Neha Sanghrajka is a negotiator, mediator, and author with over fifteen years of experience delivering definitive and positive outcomes in high-stakes negotiations including in Kenya and Mozambique. Sanghrajka, a Kenyan of Asian descent, is a founding member of Women Mediators across the Commonwealth.
Neha Wadekar

Neha Wadekar

Neha Wadekar is a freelance multimedia journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her reporting focuses on politics, humanitarian news, and women’s affairs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Neha’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, CNN, Foreign Policy, Reuters, and others. Neha is a 2018 International Women in Media Fellow, a 2018 Global Women’s Initiative Fellow with the Fuller Project for International Reporting, and a 2016 Overseas Press Club Fellow.
Neil Fantom

Neil Fantom

Neil Fantom is a senior statistician at the World Bank's Development Economics Data Group. He joined the World Bank on a secondment from the U.K.’s Department for International Development, where he served since 1988 as a statistics advisor both at headquarters and in the field in Malawi and Botswana, and through another secondment with the European Commission.
Neil Ghosh

Neil Ghosh

Neil Ghosh is chief executive officer of SOS Children’s Villages USA, board chair of Global Youth Initiative, and former founding president of SNV USA. Neil's experience and expertise span the nonprofit, government, and private sectors.
Neil Gregory

Neil Gregory

Neil Gregory is a senior research associate at ODI. He teaches at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and advises development finance institutions and impact investing firms. He previously held a range of senior research, strategy, and operational roles at International Finance Corporation and the World Bank.
Neil Jeffery

Neil Jeffery

Neil Jeffery has been chief executive of Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor since early 2014. He has over two decades' experience in successfully leading and growing organizations, social enterprises, and innovative global partnerships. He previously led social enterprises delivering services to "base of the pyramid" consumers in the energy and agricultural sectors and headed a policy institute in Washington working to enhance the impact of U.S. policy in the Andean region.