Meet the Devex Authors

Princess Lamia Al Saud

Princess Lamia Al Saud

HRH Princess Lamia Al Saud is the secretary general and member of the board of trustees at Alwaleed Philanthropies.
Princess Sarah Zeid

Princess Sarah Zeid

Her Royal Highness Princess Sarah Zeid of Jordan is a global maternal and newborn health advocate. Working with a range of partners, Princess Sarah champions the priority of, and innovation for, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian and fragile settings. She chairs Every Where, a new platform under the Every Woman Every Child movement which aims to address the vulnerable conditions in which too many women, children and adolescents live.
Priscila do Nascimento Costa

Priscila do Nascimento Costa

Priscila Costa is the design lead for digital solutions at Instituto Tellus. She is currently working on the Initiative Cuidando de Todos I Cuidando do seu Coração is conceived and supported by FN and has the Tellus Institute as an implementing partner. She is working to create digital solutions for the cost-effective management of urban public health, focusing on low-income populations and transforming urban health realities by fighting chronic noncommunicable diseases.
Priscila Torres

Priscila Torres

Priscila Torres is a journalist and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Assistance from the University of Brasília and the Federal University of Santa Catarina. She also has a post-graduate degree in health education from the University of Salta. She is part of Brazil’s National Health Council and is president of the Pan-American Network of Rheumatic Patient Groups. She’s also the vice president of the Grupo de Apoio ao Paciente Reumático-Brasil, and founder and coordinator of Biored Brasil. She represents the National Health Committee in Brazil’s health system committee, Conitec, contributing with the creation of public health policies and the amplification of access to health technologies in Brazil.
Priscilla Boiardi

Priscilla Boiardi

Priscilla Boiardi is a policy analyst in the private finance for sustainable development team at the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate. She has over 10 years of research and training experience on social investment, private finance, and innovation, including as a research associate at the Vlerick Business School and then as a Ph.D. candidate at the Catholic University of Leuven.
Priscilla Negreiros

Priscilla Negreiros

Priscilla Negreiros, senior manager at Climate Policy Initiative in London, leads the Cities Climate Finance Alliance, or CCFLA, fostering cooperation and advocacy in subnational climate finance. CCFLA aims to scale up finance for city-level climate action by 2030, bridging demand and supply with cities, national governments, DFIs, and private investors.
Priscilla Selinam Opoku

Priscilla Selinam Opoku

Priscilla Selinam Opoku is an independent sustainable development consultant and practitioner with over 10 years progressive experience working with media, nonprofits, and private and public sector organizations to advance the well-being of vulnerable groups and smallholder cocoa farmers.
Priscilla Tiigah

Priscilla Tiigah

Priscilla Tiigah is a policy and research advisor on Cancer Research U.K.’s international cancer prevention program, which focuses on tobacco economics research in low- and middle-income countries. Cancer Research U.K. is a partner of the Tobacco Control Capacity Program.
Pritha Venkatachalam

Pritha Venkatachalam

Pritha Venkatachalam is a partner in The Bridgespan Group’s Mumbai office. She has advised governments, donors and philanthropies, nonprofits, and the private sector on a wide range of global development challenges across Asia and Africa. .
Priti Patnaik

Priti Patnaik

Priti Patnaik is a Geneva-based financial journalist reporting on global health, international trade and investment disputes. She also reports on illicit financial flows. In the past, Priti has worked with a trade law firm and a U.N. organization in Geneva. She has also worked in New Delhi and New York reporting on finance. Priti has a master’s degree in development studies from The Graduate Institute in Geneva and a master’s in business and economic reporting from New York University. She also has a bachelor’s in microbiology, genetics and chemistry from Osmania University, India.