Meet the Devex Authors

Sarah Standley

Sarah Standley

Sarah Standley joined Itad as a consultant in 2013. She has extensive experience working on the dual relationship between sustainable development and climate change. She has a consultancy background, and now specializes in the use of evidence and learning to inform policy and practice in international development cooperation.
Sarah Telford

Sarah Telford

Sarah Telford heads up OCHA's Centre for Humanitarian Data in The Hague which opened in December 2017. In this role, she oversees the Humanitarian Data Exchange platform which brings together data from over 300 organizations. She has worked in the past with the U.K.’s Department for International Development, UNICEF, and the International Medical Corps.
Sarah Trent

Sarah Trent

Sarah Trent is a freelance journalist covering the environment, food systems, economic development, and the ways everyday people around the world are affected by the climate crisis and environmental degradation.
Sarah Tadlaoui

Sarah Tadlaoui

Sarah is a program manager at Premise. She leads the deployment of Premise smart vector control technology in Cali, Colombia. Previously, Sarah led business development at a data science nonprofit. She spent five years in Colombia working with the United Nations and managing USAID-funded projects on good governance and economic development. She holds a B.A. in government studies from Sciences Po Paris and a master of international affairs from Columbia University.
Sara Rose Taylor

Sara Rose Taylor

Sara Rose Taylor works as a research officer at the Framework Convention Alliance for Tobacco Control, an alliance of more than 500 organizations across over 100 countries, which works to strengthen the implementation of the global tobacco treaty — the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control — around the world. She holds a Ph.D. in global governance and an M.A. in economics.
Sareen Malik

Sareen Malik

Sareen Malik is executive secretary at the African Civil Society Network on Water and Sanitation. ANEW and its members work on behalf of the hundreds of millions of people in Africa who lack safe water and those forced to migrate because of climate breakdown, as well as the women who together spend millions of hours each day collecting water and whose daughters will be locked into poverty if the water crisis is not addressed.
Sarmad Khan

Sarmad Khan

Sarmad Khan is policy advisor at the U.N. Development Coordination Office in New York and leads its work on leadership solutions and reform. He has held positions with the U.N. staff college in Italy, U.N. operations in Iraq and Yemen, and UNDP’s crisis bureau in Switzerland. He has a M.Sc. in public policy from University of London, and spoken on leadership, fragility, and sustainable development at several conferences and events.
Saroj Sedalia

Saroj Sedalia

Saroj Sedalia is a director at Rabin Martin, a strategy consulting firm that helps clients build their leadership in global health, including pioneering new ways to collaborate across sectors to increase financing. Saroj has 10 years of experience in public health, with expertise in formative research in program development in both the U.S. and globally. Her experience includes providing practical and evidence-driven technical assistance for program implementation; developing and conducting health program evaluations; building stakeholder relationships in diverse settings; and applying a gender-lens to health program planning and evaluation.
Sascha Marschang

Sascha Marschang

Sascha Marschang joined the European Public Health Alliance in 2009, where he is currently policy manager for health systems. Apart from issues related to the European health workforce, his policy portfolio includes e-health and medical devices, pharmaceutical policy, health threats, as well as other developments impacting health systems.
Sasha Israni

Sasha Israni

Sasha Israni is the managing director of the Royal Power Group of Companies. In 2004, Sasha formed Royal Power and Energy Ltd., a power company initially focused on providing power solutions to the service sector in Nigeria. Under his leadership at RPE, the company has rapidly grown to become the leading power solutions provider in Nigeria.