Meet the Devex Authors

Sayed Rubayet

Sayed Rubayet

Dr. Sayed Rubayet, a medical doctor with extensive experience as a technical leader, researcher and manager, leads Ipas’s work in Bangladesh. He joined Ipas after working for Save the Children International, Bangladesh, where he was director of the Saving Newborn Lives program for four years.
Scott Brown

Scott Brown

Scott Brown has been CEO of VisionFund International since 2006. VisionFund International, World Vision’s microfinance arm, has been improving the lives of children in the developing world for more than a decade. In 2017, over four and a half million children were impacted through its MFI network located across more than 30 countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe. For further information, please visit VisionFund.org
Scott Dubin

Scott Dubin

Scott Dubin is a social entrepreneur and innovator with more than 15 years of experience in the field of relief and development. He has built a career providing critical logistical and operational management to humanitarian and development projects in a host of complex and insecure environments, including Darfur, Iraq, South Sudan, and Liberia, among others. Scott has multiple country experiences leading the application of internet of things, or IoT, sensors for remote temperature, humidity, and location tracking.
Scott Guggenheim

Scott Guggenheim

Scott Guggenheim is a development anthropologist who has worked extensively on designs for poor peoples’ participation in large development projects.
Scott Jackson

Scott Jackson

Scott Jackson

Scott Jackson

Scott Jackson is the president and CEO of Global Impact. Jackson has worked at all levels of the public, private, and nonprofit sectors in more than 60 countries. Jackson was a founding nonprofit member of The ONE Campaign and has worked on initiatives with Bono and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Scott Lansell

Scott Lansell

Scott Lansell leads GeoPoll’s international development team, expanding GeoPoll's engagement with bilateral and multilateral aid organizations. Prior to joining GeoPoll, Lansell directed the civil society programs and donor diversification portfolios at World Learning, and he served as director of programs at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems.
Scott Onder

Scott Onder

Scott Onder is the chief investment officer at Mercy Corps where he leads the agency’s global strategy for impact investing, innovative finance, Web3 initiatives, and strategic partnerships with technology ventures. Onder is also the co-founder and senior managing director of Mercy Corps Ventures, the venture capital arm of Mercy Corps, which invests in high-impact startups developing inclusive fintech, climate resilience, and Web3 solutions in frontier markets.
Scott Weathers

Scott Weathers

Scott Weathers is a master of science candidate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an associate project director at Charity Science: Health, where he testing and scaling up text message reminders for vaccines in India. Currently based in Cambridge, MA, Scott previously worked as a global policy associate at IntraHealth International, advocating for legislation that would improve the effectiveness of U.S. global health aid. Scott has worked in Kenya and India and he is an alumnus of Global Health Corps and American University.
Scott Webb

Scott Webb

Scott Webb is an international development professional with more than 15 years of experience in a wide range of roles. He is currently a career and academic adviser with the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. He was previously with Catholic Relief Services working as a technical adviser for emergency human resources, and before that with Relief International as a senior program officer supporting projects in Syria and Sudan/South Sudan, and in various roles with International Relief and Development.