Meet the Devex Authors

Tomoko Tanabe

Tomoko Tanabe

Tomoko Tanabe has worked as a Devex correspondent fellow in Tokyo since May 2008, focusing on business–NGO partnerships and corporate social responsibility.
Tonni Ann Brodber

Tonni Ann Brodber

Tonni Ann Brodber joined the UN Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund as the head of the secretariat in October 2024. With a wealth of experience in gender equality, resource mobilization, and civil society engagement in fragile settings, she has worked in Fiji, South Africa, Haiti, and the Caribbean. Previously, she served as representative of the UN Women's Multi-Country Office in the Caribbean and held senior roles in the Pacific and South Africa. She has also lectured in Yanshan University, China. Tonni holds degrees from the University of the West Indies, London School of Economics, and ESADE Business School in Barcelona.
Tony Hulton

Tony Hulton

Tony Hulton is Vision for a Nation's chief executive. He has managed a variety of private, public, and not-for-profit organizations having started his career in the British Army before working for the British Embassy in the Philippines. He has been part of the management team of two SME startups and advised a range of private sector clients on delivering social impact.
Tony Okpanachi

Tony Okpanachi

Tony Okpanachi, Ph.D., managing director/CEO of Development Bank of Nigeria Plc, boasts over 30 years in banking. Formerly deputy managing director of Ecobank Nigeria and a regional managing director across East Africa, his diverse expertise spans treasury, corporate finance, and retail. Holding a doctorate in development economics and an MBA, he's a fellow of CIB and CIS, and a highly accomplished, strategic financial leader.
Tony Slatyer

Tony Slatyer

Tony Slatyer is an independent consultant on water policy and governance and co-founder of Water Policy Group. Slatyer is also engaged as special adviser on water to Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Until 2017, Slatyer was the head of the water division for the Australian government.
Toolos Bostonbaev

Toolos Bostonbaev

Toolos Bostonbaev is an experienced professional in the field of water management in Kyrgyzstan. He works for the National Union of the Water Users’ Association of the Kyrgyz Republic and is a member of the International Land Coalition.
Toyin Ojora Saraki

Toyin Ojora Saraki

Toyin Ojora Saraki is a WHO Foundation ambassador for global health. As founder-president of The Wellbeing Foundation Africa, Saraki is a global advocate for women’s and children’s health and empowerment, with two decades of advocacy covering reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health; ending gender-based discrimination and violence; and improving education, socioeconomic empowerment, and community livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa. Saraki is part of the Women in Global Health movement.
Toyin Ojora-Saraki

Toyin Ojora-Saraki

Toyin Ojora-Saraki is the founder-president of The Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA). She is a Nigerian advocate for women’s and children’s health and empowerment, with two decades of advocacy covering reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health; ending gender-based discrimination and violence; and improving education, socio-economic empowerment, and community livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa.
Tracey France

Tracey France

Tracey France is the chief diversity officer for the Millennium Challenge Corporation. She works collaboratively with all departments to integrate diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility into all work streams agency-wide to foster a diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace culture.
Traci L. Baird

Traci L. Baird

Traci L. Baird is the president and CEO of EngenderHealth, where she works closely with the organization’s talented global leaders to establish strategy and implement programs in the areas of sexual and reproductive health and rights, or SRHR, maternal health, and gender. Traci has worked in the field of global SRHR for more than 25 years. A focus of her leadership is organizational effectiveness and ensuring that EngenderHealth “walks the talk” of gender equality and authentic partnership.