Stefano Manservisi is director-general for international cooperation and development at the European Commission since May 2016.

Stella Dawson covers corruption and governance issues for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. For the past 25 years, Dawson has reported on international economic policy and finance at Reuters from the United States and Europe, where she was distinguished for her coverage of the early years of the European Central Bank.

Stella Ngumuta holds a Bachelor of Law from the University of Nairobi and a master's in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Boston. She has worked in the private and public sectors in Kenya, Somalia and Sierra Leone. Stella became a Devex fellow in June 2007 and after a stint in Washington, D.C., relocated to Nairobi, where she eventually became associate protection officer at the HIAS Refugee Trust of Kenya in Nairobi. She is fluent in English and Swahili, and speaks basic French.

Stéphane Hallegatte is a senior economist at the World Bank. His work includes climate change vulnerability and adaptation, green growth strategies, urban economics and environmental policies, and disaster risk management. He was lead author of IPCC reports, and co-led with Marianne Fay the World Bank report “Decarbonizing Development.” He was the lead author of “Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty,” on which this post is based.

Stephanie Alt Lamm is the assistant director of the Master of International Development Policy Program at Duke University. She has more than two decades of experience in international education management, marketing and admissions, global career advising and helping students from around the world follow their passion.

Stephanie Amoako is a senior policy associate at Accountability Counsel, a global organization that works with communities around the world to defend their environmental and human rights through direct case support, policy advocacy, and research. She has extensive human rights and advocacy experience in the U.S. and around the world, including in Brazil and the Maldives.

Stephanie Beasley is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global philanthropy with a focus on regulations and policy. She is an alumna of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Oberlin College and has a background in Latin American studies. She previously covered transportation security at POLITICO.

Stephanie Brittain is project and communications officer for Agriculture for Impact. Stephanie holds a degree in geography from Queen Mary University of London and a master's in conservation science from Imperial College London.

Stephanie Cappa is the deputy director and senior policy advisor for the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network. A coalition of development practitioners and foreign policy experts, MFAN advances a reform agenda to make U.S. development assistance more transparent, country-owned, and accountable for results.

Stephanie leads investments for Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment firm, in the areas of property rights and microfinance. She focuses on investments that help formalize land rights and increase land security for the poor and that improve microfinance infrastructure by expanding networks, enabling credit information sharing, and mitigating foreign exchange risks. The views expressed in her guest editorial do not necessarily reflect those of Devex.