Meet the Devex Authors

Blessing Omakwu

Blessing Omakwu

Blessing Omakwu is an international development consultant, women’s equality evangelist, and lawyer. She advises philanthropic and international development organizations and runs The She Tank, a think-tank promoting the realization of SDG 5 for black women.
Blythe Thomas

Blythe Thomas

Blythe Thomas is the initiative director at 1,000 Days where she leads the charge to make the health and well-being of mothers and babies a policy and funding priority. Prior to 1,000 Days, Thomas held leadership roles at the Partnership for a Healthier America, the Kansas Health Foundation, the Nature Conservancy, and the American Red Cross.
Bo Miller

Bo Miller

Bo Miller is the global director for corporate citizenship for The Dow Chemical Company. He is responsible for identifying corporate citizenship issues and trends important to the company, and in turn, developing and implementing the company’s global corporate citizenship strategy. Miller also serves as the president and executive director of The Dow Chemical Company Foundation and director of Corporate/Community Affairs for Great Lakes Bay Region (GLBR), Michigan.
Bob van Dillen

Bob van Dillen

Bob van Dillen is a migration expert at the Catholic Organization for Relief and Development Aid, the Dutch member of Caritas Europa. Cordaid is an international development organization working in fragile states in over 20 countries throughout the world. He has worked for Cordaid since 2004 and has chaired the migration and development task force of CONCORD, the European confederation of development NGOs, since 2014. He is also coordinator for SDGs and migration for the Migration and Development Civil Society Network.
Bocar Mamadou Daff

Bocar Mamadou Daff

Dr. Bocar Mamadou Daff is the director of the reproductive health and child survival unit for the Senegalese Ministry of Health and Social Action. Daff is a fierce supporter of research and evidence-based decision-making. He received his doctorate in medicine in 1989, and has diplomas in public health, health economics and international development. In 2013, he received the Excel Award for leadership on Family Planning by the Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health.
Bodo Ellmers

Bodo Ellmers

Bodo Ellmers is senior policy and advocacy officer at the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad). He is leading Eurodad’s work on debt, financial governance and responsible financing. For several years prior to this he was in charge of Eurodad’s work on aid and governance. Before joining Eurodad, Bodo was a policy officer at "Deine Stimme gegen Armut," the German branch of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty campaign.
Bogdan Ferens

Bogdan Ferens

Bogdan Ferens is the founder of SD Platform and Progressive Teachers in Ukraine. He has more than 15 years of experience in the field of European integration, interparliamentary cooperation at the level of Ukraine and the EU, NATO, SME development, mobility, and transport.
Bonnie Glick

Bonnie Glick

Bonnie Glick is the deputy administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID.
Bor Losol

Bor Losol

Bor Losol is the founder of Bayansharga, an NGO working to protect the rights of herders and other local people, and ensure that the mining sector works for the benefit of all Mongolians. It is part of the Publish What You Pay global movement.
Boutheina Guermazi

Boutheina Guermazi

Boutheina Guermazi joined the World Bank in 2004 and has held several positions of progressive responsibility in the information and communication technologies teams, including practice manager for the digital development teams covering the Middle East and Africa regions and director for digital development. She became the World Bank director for regional integration for sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and North Africa in October 2021. In this position, she oversees the implementation of the World Bank Group’s regional integration strategy and leads the policy dialogue and partnership with regional organizations, country clients, and partners.