Meet the Devex Authors

Sasha Muench

Sasha Muench

Sasha Muench is director of economic and market development for Mercy Corps, where she provides institutional leadership and program support on all aspects of economic development for Mercy Corps globally. Muench has over eighteen years of international development experience, primarily in the areas of economic and market development, financial services provision, enterprise development, private sector engagement, and community revitalization in transitional environments.
Saskia Osendarp

Saskia Osendarp

Saskia Osendarp is the executive director of Micronutrient Forum. She is a globally recognized nutrition researcher with over 25 years of experience in nutrition. She brings expertise in child development, micronutrients, and fortification. She has a proven track record in both the public and private sectors of successful international research collaborations, program design, impact evaluations, and innovation project launches. She holds a doctorate in nutrition from Wageningen University & Research.
Saskia Ozinga

Saskia Ozinga

Saskia Ozinga is campaign coordinator of the social and environmental justice NGO FERN, which she co-founded in 1995, and which monitors the European Union’s involvement in forests. She is also the facilitator of the Forest Movement Europe, a grouping of 45 NGOs from across Europe working on forest issues. She has authored or co-authored numerous books and reports on topics including forest policy, illegal timber and community rights.
Sathy Rajasekharan

Sathy Rajasekharan

Sathy Rajasekharan, Ph.D., is the co-executive director of Jacaranda Health. Prior to Jacaranda, Sathy was a senior program manager for the drug access and health financing teams of the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Eswatini, associate director of the McGill University Centre for Biomedical Innovation, and associate director at the Montreal Neurological Institute.
Satwik Seshasai

Satwik Seshasai

Satwik Seshasai is the chief technology officer at Segovia. He has built and deployed technology systems in global enterprise and entrepreneurial environments. As program director of engineering at IBM, he helped build the SmartCloud platform deployed across 17 countries and 18 million users, including multiple international social programs. He was CTO of NextDocs, and a senior adviser to Oscar and K2 Intelligence. He earned a Ph.D. in engineering systems with research focused on technology deployment in Nairobi, Abu Dhabi and the U.S. Satwik also holds a M.S. in technology and policy, and B.S. and M.Eng. in computer science from MIT.
Satyendra Prasad

Satyendra Prasad

Dr. Satyendra Prasad is the ambassador and permanent representative of the Permanent Mission of Fiji to the United Nations.
Saugata Banerjee

Saugata Banerjee

Saugata Banerjee is vice president of inclusive business, and philanthropy, Asia Pacific in Essilor and is responsible for spearheading the initiatives pertaining to building affordable and innovative eye care solutions in emerging countries. Banerjee’s mission is to pioneer on-the-spot inclusive business solutions in emerging markets through business model and product/service innovation and by building an ecosystem of fixed and mobile points of sale.
Saul Kenny

Saul Kenny

Saul Kenny is a member of the Secretariat of the UN Charter Reform Coalition. He is a communication professional, currently working in the field of EU affairs. He also contributes to research on EU external relations and the women, peace and security agenda.
Saundra Pelletier

Saundra Pelletier

Saundra Pelletier is the CEO of Woman Care Global, a global nonprofit focused on creating sustainable and affordable access to women's reproductive products. She is also CEO of Evofem, a privately held biotechnology company that develops prescription and consumer products in the areas of contraception, feminine care and the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. Pelletier is a mother, an executive coach and a published author.
Savanna Ferguson

Savanna Ferguson

Savanna Ferguson is the executive director of Climate Breakthrough, a global philanthropy that supports leaders to pursue innovative and transformative climate action. In this capacity, she oversees the organization’s multimillion-dollar, worldwide grantmaking operations and expansion. She also spearheads partnerships and contributes to the discourse within climate philanthropy.