Meet the Devex Authors

Ashley Toombs

Ashley Toombs

Ashley Toombs is the manager of external affairs for BRAC USA, the North American affiliate of BRAC, a global leader in developing and implementing cost-effective, evidence-based programs to assist the most marginalized people in extremely poor, conflict-prone, and post-disaster settings. Both Landesa and BRAC USA are members of the Hilton Prize Coalition, an independent alliance of the 21 winners of the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize. The Coalition works together globally to achieve collective impact in humanitarian assistance, human rights, development, education, and health.
Ashley  Birkett

Ashley Birkett

Ashley Birkett is the director of the PATH's Malaria Vaccine Initiative, which works to accelerate the development of malaria vaccines and catalyze timely access in endemic countries. Birkett has 20 years of vaccine development experience in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors.
Ashling Mulvaney

Ashling Mulvaney

Ashling Mulvaney has been in the pharmaceutical industry for 20 years, and with AstraZeneca since 2008, in a range of access-focused roles across therapy areas including cardiovascular, diabetes, and respiratory. In 2016, Ashling took on leadership of AstraZeneca’s flagship Healthy Heart Africa program.
Ashoka

Ashoka

Ashoka is leading the way to an "Everyone a Changemaker" World. As the world's largest network of change-makers and social innovators with more than 3,000 social entrepreneurs in 70 countries, Ashoka aims to bring about large-scale social change. Ashoka supports innovators get started, grow their ideas, collaborate, reshape whole systems and influence societal transformation. Founded in 1980 with the belief that the most powerful force in the world is a big idea in the hands of an entrepreneur, Ashoka applies insights from the world's leading social entrepreneurs to set in motion profound societal transformation. Current insights indicate that our rapidly changing world calls for an "Everyone a Changemaker" world, one where every person practices the critical skills of empathy, teamwork, leadership and change-making to command change across silos and be a contributor.
Ashraf Fouad

Ashraf Fouad

Ashraf Fouad is the country director of DKT Egypt, a subsidiary of DKT International, one of the largest private providers of family planning products and services in the developing world. DKT Egypt opened its doors in 2004 to fill a gap in Egypt’s private sector by providing high-quality, low-cost contraceptives. In 2017, DKT Egypt generated over 1.7 million couple years of protection.
Ashraf Khan

Ashraf Khan

Ashraf Khan is a Pakistan-based journalist who has worked with foreign media for the past 22 years. He has reported on a variety of issues including environment and climate change, economy, politics, human rights, the war on terror, and lifestyle. His work has appeared in Newsweek, Le Monde Diplomatique, Far Eastern Economic Review, Christian Science Monitor, IRIN — now known as The New Humanitarian, South China Morning Post, Qantara.de, and others.
Ashrafedin Youya

Ashrafedin Youya

Ashrafedin Youya is senior environmental health expert and assistant director of hygiene and environmental health directorate at Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health. He has more than 17 years worth of experience working in government and NGOS. He worked directly on Ethiopia’s National Health Adaptation Plan. Youya is experienced in coordinating and managing hygiene and environmental health programs at regional and national level, including during emergency situations.
Ashtin Carter

Ashtin Carter

Ashtin is an Analyst at the USAID Global Development Lab's Center for Transformational Partnerships (CTP), where she performs research, data analysis, and training support on public-private partnerships, inclusive business, and other approaches to private-sector engagement. She recently graduated from Spelman College with a B.A. in International Studies, and a specialization in International Development.
Ashvin Dayal

Ashvin Dayal

Ashvin Dayal is senior vice president for The Rockefeller Foundation’s global power and climate initiative, focused on scaling up renewable energy access to drive green and inclusive local development. He oversees a diverse range of investments in the distributed renewable energy space, including energy project investments, along with grants for data and technology innovation, policy, research, and advocacy.
Asim I. Khwaja

Asim I. Khwaja

Asim I. Khwaja is the faculty director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University and professor of international finance and development at the Harvard Kennedy School. Khwaja is also the co-founder of the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan.