Meet the Devex Authors

Rosie Dickson

Rosie Dickson

Rosie Dickson is a Project Manager for Devex. She has a background in partnerships and international development and holds a degree in Latin American politics from the University of Bristol.
Rosie Tasker

Rosie Tasker

Rosie Tasker is global advocacy manager within the Knowledge, Policy & Advocacy Team at the Union for International Cancer Control.
Rosie Wheen

Rosie Wheen

Rosie Wheen is chief executive at WaterAid Australia. She is a passionate advocate for human rights, gender equality, and universal access to WASH. She has two decades of international development experience. She has lived and worked in Indonesia for six years before joining WaterAid Australia at its inception in 2004. She was director of international programs prior to becoming chief executive in 2016.
Roxana Elliott

Roxana Elliott

Roxana Elliott is GeoPoll's vice president of marketing. She has extensive experience in communications and marketing for international organizations and oversees all marketing efforts and public research reports at GeoPoll.
Roxanne Paisible

Roxanne Paisible

Roxanne Paisible is an international development professional with 13 years of professional experience in spearheading advocacy and communications campaigns and managing strategic partnerships. She recently served as the advocacy, branding and partnerships consultant with the African Development Bank’s Human Capital, Youth and Skills Development team.
Roy Jacobstein

Roy Jacobstein

Dr. Roy Jacobstein is a senior medical adviser at IntraHealth International. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed papers on a wide range of family planning and reproductive health topics. He has served as an expert technical adviser to the World Health Organization on a range of issues including community-based provision of injectibles, hormonal contraception and HIV, and WHO’s Medical Eligibility for Contraceptive Use.
Roy Prosterman

Roy Prosterman

Roy Prosterman is founder and chairman emeritus of Landesa, an NGO that partner with governments to extend land rights to the world's poorest people. With almost half a century of experience on land tenure, he has published several books on land reform and development.
Roy Smith

Roy Smith

Roy Smith is program leader for the Master of Arts in International Development at Nottingham Trent University’s School of Arts and Humanities in the United Kingdom. He is co-author, with Chris McMurray, of the 2001 Earthscan publication “Diseases of Globalization: Socioeconomic Transitions and Health.”
Roy Steiner

Roy Steiner

Roy Steiner is the senior vice president for the food initiative at The Rockefeller Foundation.
Roy van der Drift

Roy van der Drift

Roy van der Drift is a senior partnerships and resource mobilizations adviser at SNV Netherlands Development Organization. Roy manages the Opportunities for Youth Employment program, in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation, in Mozambique, Rwanda and Tanzania.