Meet the Devex Authors

Stephanie Brittain

Stephanie Brittain

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

Stephanie Cappa

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 Cohn Rupp

Stephanie Cohn Rupp

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.
Stephanie Keene

Stephanie Keene

Stephanie Keene is an international development and human rights lawyer, and a senior law and policy adviser with the Rights and Resources Initiative.
Stephanie Mathews O'Keefe

Stephanie Mathews O'Keefe

Stephanie Mathews O'Keefe was appointed chief executive officer of the International Women's Forum in September 2016. Her career has spanned the private sector, government and nonprofit organizations where she has held senior leadership positions for over two decades. Most recently, she served as the chief communications officer for CTIA, the telecom trade association and as executive vice president for communications at the American Bankers Association.
Stephanie Nguyen

Stephanie Nguyen

Stephanie Eichmann, was formerly on the Global Membership Team, where she helped individuals and organizations navigate the resources on the Devex site.
Stephanie Psaki

Stephanie Psaki

Stephanie Psaki is a research associate focusing on girls’ education for the Population Council, a New York-based international nonprofit that conducts biomedical, social science, and public health research to shape more effective policies, programs, and technologies that improve lives around the world. Prior to joining the organization in 2013, Psaki worked on gender programs for FHI 360.
Stephanie von Friedeburg

Stephanie von Friedeburg

Stephanie von Friedeburg is a managing director at Citi, leading efforts to scale DFI Strategic Partnerships. Von Friedeburg is leveraging her extensive background in infrastructure/project finance and ESG-aligned financing to support sovereign clients’ national agendas as well as private client needs.
Stéphanie Fillion

Stéphanie Fillion

Stéphanie Fillion is a New York-based reporter specializing in foreign affairs and human rights and a United Nations resident correspondent. Her work has been featured in outlets such as Forbes Magazine, Foreign Policy, CNN, among others. She has a master's degree in Journalism, Politics, and Global Affairs from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from McGill University. In recent years, her U.N. coverage received two U.N. Correspondent Association awards as well as a Gracie award from the Alliance for Women in Media.