Meet the Devex Authors

Anna Cecilia Frellsen

Anna Cecilia Frellsen

Anna Cecilia Frellsen is the CEO of Maternity Foundation, a Danish development organization that aims to reduce maternal and child mortality in developing countries by developing sustainable and innovative maternal health solutions to be scaled up. One of these solutions is the Safe Delivery App, developed in collaboration with Copenhagen University and University of Southern Denmark.
Annalisa Prizzon

Annalisa Prizzon

Annalisa Prizzon is a senior research fellow in the Development and Public Finance program at global affairs think tank ODI (formerly the Overseas Development Institute) and ODI's lead specialist on multilateral development banks. She is a member of the U.N. Committee for Development Policy and a U.K. Development Studies Association trustee.
Anna Patricia Valerio

Anna Patricia Valerio

Anna Patricia Valerio is a former Manila-based development analyst who focused on writing innovative, in-the-know content for senior executives in the international development community. Before joining Devex, Patricia wrote and edited business, technology and health stories for BusinessWorld, a Manila-based business newspaper.
Anna van 't Noordende

Anna van 't Noordende

Anna van ’t Noordende is a program support and Ph.D. research officer for No Leprosy Remains’ PEP++ project, a study — or clinical trial, depending on the group — that aims to provide new tools to stop the transmission of leprosy. Her Ph.D. study focuses on the social and psychological impact of leprosy and leprosy-related stigma and interventions to reduce this impact at individual, family, and community levels.
Anna Zimmermann Jin

Anna Zimmermann Jin

Anna Zimmermann Jin joined the Skoll Foundation in 2016 and currently serves as manager on the Analysis & Insight team. She is responsible for managing the foundation's research agenda, producing intelligence on the issue areas, geographies, and ecosystems the foundation's awardees operate in, and assessing the impact of Skoll's portfolio to support ongoing learning and evidence-based decision making.
Anne Hayes

Anne Hayes

Anne Hayes is the chief operating officer of Inclusive Development Partners, an organization with more than 20 years of experience focusing on disability-inclusive development in more than 30 countries. As an independent consultant, Hayes supported disability-inclusive development programming for various civil society organizations, disabled persons organizations and United Nations agencies.
Anne Kabagambe

Anne Kabagambe

Anne Kabagambe is the author of “A Global Playbook for the Next Pandemic.” A citizen of Uganda, she served as an executive director of the World Bank from October 2018 to October 2020, representing 22 African countries.
Anne Paisley

Anne Paisley

Anne Paisley is a former senior manager of editorial planning and production at Devex, where she oversaw Devex’s newsletters, website, and editorial production team. Prior to joining Devex in 2015, Anne was the managing editor at the Center for American Progress. She has previously held positions at CNN, the U.S. Department of State, and Cambridge Associates. She earned a bachelor’s degree in international affairs and Asian studies from George Washington University, including a semester abroad at Peking University in Beijing.
Anne Philpott

Anne Philpott

Anne Philpott is head of evaluation support group at DFID, working for 5 years on DFID India’s response to under nutrition in India — home to 40% of the world’s underweight children. She worked in the ‘Nutrition for Growth’ summit team — an event which ended with 94 governments and organisations making commitments to tackle nutrition.
Anne Richard

Anne Richard

Anne C. Richard is the assistant secretary of state for population, refugees, and migration since April 2012. Her bureau's mission is to provide protection, ease suffering, and resolve the plight of persecuted and uprooted people around the world on behalf of the American people.