Meet the Devex Authors

Stephanie L. Ferguson

Stephanie L. Ferguson

Stephanie L. Ferguson is director of the Harvard Global Nursing Leadership Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.
Stephen Brooks

Stephen Brooks

Stephen Brooks is a land tenure and resource governance adviser at the U.S. Agency for International Development. He focuses on the integration of property rights considerations into ongoing global climate change objectives. He manages USAID’s Tenure and Global Climate Change project in Zambia.
Stephen Hall

Stephen Hall

Stephen J. Hall, WorldFish director general, previously headed the Australian Institute of Marine Science and was a member of the prime minister’s Steering Committee on Mapping Australia’s Innovation System from 2003 to 2004. A former professor of marine biology at Flinders University in Adelaide, Hall has published extensive scientific and development research on tropical fisheries and aquaculture.
Stephen Locarnini

Stephen Locarnini

Professor Stephen Locarnini is the co-founder and Joint Secretary of the not-for-profit organization, the Coalition to Eradicate Viral Hepatitis in Asia Pacific Region (CEVHAP). Professor Locarnini is also the Director of the World Health Organization Regional Reference Laboratory for Hepatitis B at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, where he has worked since 1989.
Stephen O'Brien

Stephen O'Brien

Stephen O'Brien heads the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Stephen Omollo

Stephen Omollo

Stephen Omollo is the CEO of Plan International.
Stephen Rea

Stephen Rea

Stephen Rea joined ViiV Healthcare’s executive team in 2017 as the head of external affairs and communications. He is responsible for the company’s strategic approach to communications, government affairs, global health, investor relations, and community partnerships. Rea has a specific focus on improving outcomes for children living with HIV and is accountable for the modernization of employee engagement across the HIV business.
Stephen Suffian

Stephen Suffian

Stephen Suffian is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at Villanova University. He is researching information-driven flexibility options for electricity grids with high penetration of variable and uncertain renewable energy sources.
Stephen Turner

Stephen Turner

Stephen Turner is a former senior manager at WaterAid. He joined the organization in 1990 as a member of the senior management team, responsible for growing the charity through strategic planning and fundraising, and was heavily involved with the campaign to see the United Nations recognize sanitation as a target indicator for the Millennium Development Goals before retiring in 2008. He previously worked as an education officer, field director and regional manager for VSO.
Stephen Twigg

Stephen Twigg

Stephen Twigg is a Labour MP and chair of the U.K.’s International Development Select Committee. He was previously shadow secretary of state for education and served as a government minister from 2001-2005, first as deputy leader of the House of Commons and later as an education minister.