Meet the Devex Authors

Peter Beez

Peter Beez

Peter Beez is an economist. Since 2002, he has worked with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, or SDC, building professional experience in the private and public sector (SMEs, bank, consulting, university, Swiss Federal Finance Administration, World Economic Forum, and SDC). Peter is passionate about achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, impact-linked finance, social entrepreneurship, and scale.
Peter Burdin

Peter Burdin

Peter Burdin is the BBC's former Africa bureau chief and world assignments editor. He’s reported on major international news stories from Africa, China, the Middle East, and India, and has won several awards for his journalism including a Sony Award for his documentary series “Return To Sarajevo.”
Peter Crawford

Peter Crawford

Peter Crawford is a resilience adviser at Christian Aid. He has previously worked in Nepal for over five years on disaster risk reduction and resilience programming for a number of different agencies.
Peter Cross

Peter Cross

Peter Cross is president of IDEAS, a U.S.-based social enterprise which seeks to strengthen the provision of health services to underserved populations around the world. A health economist with over 40 years of experience developing health and education in the world’s poorest nations, his most recent work was in Afghanistan and also spent six years in Nepal. Cross is a member of USAID's Supply Chain Sustainability Technical Advisory Group.
Peter Crowley

Peter Crowley

Peter Crowley has a varied and extensive background in international development, including in some of the most challenging country contexts. From his professional beginnings as a teacher in Sudan in 1977, he went on to set up and manage a program for Voluntary Services Overseas in the south of the country. In 1983, he became head of the VSO program in Nepal. Between 1985 and 1990, Peter was the UNESCO chief technical adviser on a major education program in the far-west of Nepal. During the following eight years, he served as head of Save the Children U.K.’s South Asia regional office, before moving to Geneva to lead efforts to promote closer alignment and collaboration among the members of the International Save the Children Alliance. Since joining UNICEF in 1998, Peter has served in a number of senior positions, including in the areas of evaluation, policy and planning, emergency operations and public partnerships, as director of the program in South Sudan, and as country representative in Afghanistan. In September 2013 he returned to New York to head the UNICEF polio team.
Peter de Graaf

Peter de Graaf

Peter de Graaf is a senior adviser for ESG and sustainability at global communication consultancy Leidar. De Graaf has been involved in corporate responsibility and sustainability throughout a career that includes regulatory affairs, management consultancy, and finance. He has a deep understanding of the current EU environmental agenda and has advised companies, investors, and NGOs on how they talk to their audiences about material sustainability issues.
Peter Dixon

Peter Dixon

Peter Dixon a research scientist in the Conflict Resolution and Coexistence program at the Heller School for Social Policy at Brandeis University, where he co-leads the Everyday Justice and Everyday Indicators for Policy Innovation projects. He uses mixed methodologies to study how the everyday experiences of people and organizations during and after conflict enable or limit transformative solutions toward peace and justice. Dixon’s research addresses issues of measurement, political violence, peacebuilding, and transitional justice — both in the United States and abroad.
Peter Eigen

Peter Eigen

Prof. Dr. Peter Eigen has led initiatives for better global governance and the fight against corruption for decades. In 1993, he founded Transparency International and has taught law and political science at universities including Harvard, the University of Washington and Bruges College of Europe. Germany awarded Eigen its Grand Cross of Merit in recognition of his efforts to combat corruption in January 2013.
Peter El Hajj

Peter El Hajj

Peter El Hajj is the digital twins lead, net-zero urban program at KPMG in the United Kingdom. He is the former program lead for the U.K.’s National Digital Twin Program at the Centre for Digital Built Britain. Peter is passionate about using digitalization and technology to improve outcomes from infrastructure and the built environment. He holds a Ph.D. in data-driven asset management and a background in civil engineering and public-private partnerships.
Peter Eriksson

Peter Eriksson

Peter Eriksson is the new Swedish minister for international development cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the previous Swedish government, he was the minister of housing and digitization. Eriksson has also been a member of the European Parliament, member of the Swedish Parliament, and president of the Committee on the Constitution. Additionally, he has also been one of two spokespersons for the Swedish Green Party during 2002-2011.