Meet the Devex Authors

Sandy Remancus

Sandy Remancus

Sandy Remancus has 30 years of experience in nutrition, food security, and program management. Remancus is the director of Alive & Thrive, an FHI Solutions initiative. Previously, she served as the FANTA project director and worked in West Africa on a USAID-funded family health and AIDS project and with the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.
Sangita Reddy

Sangita Reddy

Sangita Reddy is a member of the founding family and the joint managing director, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd. She is also the chairperson of Apollo Knowledge, the education vertical of the group and a member of the prestigious World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Digital Health.
Sanitha Pathiyanthara

Sanitha Pathiyanthara

Sanitha Pathiyanthara is a Project Manager with United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS). She is leading the gender mainstreaming efforts within UNOPS for its projects. She is the lead author of UNOPS gender mainstreaming toolkit and worked in various infrastructure projects in Afghanistan with United Nations and in India in private sector. She holds a Masters in Business Administration and studied advanced project management from Stanford University.
Sanjay Gurung

Sanjay Gurung

Sanjay Gurung, a senior technical advisor on Mercy Corps' Resilience, Governance and Partnership team, has led research, evaluation and assessment processes in a wide range of countries and contexts. He has worked extensively on the public-private partnership model of good governance and developed Mercy Corps' strategy to promote good governance. His portfolio covers countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Balkans. He is based in Mercy Corps' Portland, Oregon headquarters.
Sanjay Pradhan

Sanjay Pradhan

Sanjay Pradhan is the CEO of the Open Government Partnership. He leads OGP’s policy dialogue with heads of state, senior ministers, and civil society organizations across the partnership and serves as OGP’s global spokesperson. He previously served in three senior positions at the World Bank: vice president for leadership, learning, and innovation; vice president of the World Bank Institute; and director for governance.
Sanjaya Rajaram

Sanjaya Rajaram

Sanjaya Rajaram is the 2014 World Food Prize laureate for scientific research that led to an increase in world wheat production by more than 200 million tons. He worked at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center for 33 years and International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas for eight years. The wheat varieties he developed are now grown on 58 million hectares worldwide. It is estimated that these varieties provide wheat to more than 1 billion people a year.
Sanjeev Gupta

Sanjeev Gupta

Sanjeev Gupta is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. He previously served as deputy director of the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund and has worked in its African and European departments.
Sanjoy Patnaik

Sanjoy Patnaik

Sanjoy Patnaik is India country director for Landesa, a global development nonprofit working to improve land rights for women and men. For more information, follow us at @Landesa_Global, or visit Landesa.org or landpost2015.landesa.org
Sanket Jain

Sanket Jain

Sanket Jain is an award-winning independent journalist and documentary photographer based in western India’s Maharashtra state. He is a senior People’s Archive of Rural India and an Earth Journalism Network fellow. His work has appeared in more than 35 publications. Sanket is the recipient of the Covering Climate Now Award, One World Media Award, New York University’s Online Journalism Award, and several other national and international awards.
Sanou Gning

Sanou Gning

Sanou Gning is the Sahel director for MSI Reproductive Choices. Gning joined MSI Reproductive Choices in 2012, as the Senegal social marketing director, before going on to become program director, country director, and Sahel director. Prior to joining MSI, Gning worked for different pan-African banks in Senegal.