Meet the Devex Authors

Anthony Lake

Anthony Lake

On May 1, 2010, Anthony Lake became the sixth executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund, bringing to the position more than 45 years of public service. He obtained a B.A. degree from Harvard in 1961, read international economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and went on to receive his Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1974. A native of New York, Anthony Lake is married and has three children and six grandchildren.
Anthony Langat

Anthony Langat

Anthony Langat is a Kenya-based Devex Contributing Reporter whose work centers on environment, climate change, health, and security. He was part of an International Consortium of Investigative Journalism’s multi-award winning 2015 investigation which unearthed the World Bank’s complacence in the evictions of indigenous people across the world. He has five years’ experience in development and investigative reporting and has been published by Al Jazeera, Mongabay, Us News & World Report, Equal Times, News Deeply, Thomson Reuters Foundation, and Devex among others.
Anthony Rologas

Anthony Rologas

Anthony Rologas is the senior manager - volunteer program strategy at Scope Global, based in South Australia. Prior to that, Anthony worked in a number of project and human resource management roles in the Australian public service and university sectors. Anthony has firsthand experience of the Australian Volunteers for International Development program, having spent 12 months on assignment in the Philippines where he helped the Local Government Academy develop its distance education programs.
Anthony Smith

Anthony Smith

Anthony Smith is the chief executive of Westminster Foundation for Democracy, the United Kingdom public body dedicated to strengthening democracy around the world. He serves on the boards of the European Partnership for Democracy and Peace Direct and was previously international relations director at the Department for International Development.
Antje Leendertse

Antje Leendertse

Antje Leendertse is the permanent representative of Germany to the United Nations and chair of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission in 2025.
Antoine Remise

Antoine Remise

Antoine is a former international development correspondent for Devex, based in Paris. He holds a bachelor's in political science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Lille and a master's in development administration and planning from the University College in London. Antoine has conducted researche for development projects in Chile, Senegal and Uganda, notably on education, health, local saving systems and housing issues. He is fluent in French, English and Spanish.
Antoinette Kome

Antoinette Kome

Antoinette Kome is SNV's global sector coordinator for water, sanitation and hygiene. A senior expert in water resource management, watershed management and water supply and sanitation, Kome leads SNV's WASH programs across 26 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Antonia Esser

Antonia Esser

Antonia Esser is an engagement manager at Cenfri, an independent not-for-profit think tank based in Cape Town, South Africa. She currently forms part of the COVID-19 remittances task force that aims to inform U.N. bodies on necessary actions around remittances and is also a member of the African Union’s African Institute for Remittances expert cohort.
Antonio Inguane

Antonio Inguane

Antonio Inguane is an international development specialist and works with Cadasta Foundation as a program specialist. Before joining Cadasta, he worked with the Community Land Initiative Foundation in Mozambique. His areas of expertise are land policy and resources rights, environment and climate change, and ICT4D. Mr. Inguane holds a MSc in environment and development from Australian National University.
Antonio Tujan Jr.

Antonio Tujan Jr.

Antonio Tujan Jr., a social activist working on Philippine and international issues for more than 40 years, is the co-chair of the BetterAid Open CSO Platform on Aid Effectiveness. He helped found the IBON Foundation in 1978 and currently serves as its director for international development. He also is the chairman of the Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN), a network of more than 50 major research NGOs in the Asia Pacific, and a member of the Advisory Group of the United Nations Development Cooperation Forum. He is former global chairperson and current Asia Pacific chairperson of Reality of the Aid Network. Tujan has written about food sovereignty, globalization and related issues in a variety of publications.