Meet the Devex Authors

Briana Wilson

Briana Wilson

Briana Wilson is a disability inclusion advisor-manager at CBM Australia. Wilson manages a team that works with the disability movement and provides disability inclusion advice to DFAT and a range of other development agencies, including Australian NGOs, managing contractors, and multilaterals. Wilson has a clinical background in occupational therapy and a master's in international development (policy and human rights).
Bridget Mugambe

Bridget Mugambe

Bridget Mugambe, program coordinator at the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, is a social scientist who leads the agroecology and climate working group at AFSA, which represents more than 200 million farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk, Indigenous peoples, faith groups, women’s movements, youth, and consumer associations across 50 countries.
Brieuc Pont

Brieuc Pont

Brieuc Pont is France's special envoy on nutrition and secretary-general of the Nutrition for Growth Summit. He previously served as France's ambassador to Nicaragua 2020-2023 and consul general in Sao Paulo 2016-2020. Pont is a graduate of the Bordeaux Institute of Political Studies. He holds a post-graduate diploma in Political Communication from the University of Paris.
Bright Simons

Bright Simons

Bright Simons is a social innovator, multipatent-holding technology inventor, and policy activist. Through his work at mPedigree and with think tanks like IMANI, he contributes to the breaking of silos and crossing of boundaries necessary to finding lasting solutions to society's ever more complex problems. As a senior adviser to international NGOs, global multinationals, leading universities, and social movements around the world, his impact has been recognized with awards and prizes by multiple prominent institutions.
Brigit Helms

Brigit Helms

DAI’s Brigit Helms has nearly 30 years of experience pioneering innovative approaches to financial inclusion and seeking enterprise- and market-based solutions to poverty. She has lived and worked in more than 35 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
Briony Mathieson

Briony Mathieson

A communications professional, Briony Mathieson has spent over 25 years working across the full range of communications channels. She is currently the global head of marketing communications at Olam International, an agri-business listed in Singapore.
Brittany Boettcher

Brittany Boettcher

Brittany Boettcher has run several major programs for the Skoll Foundation since 2006, including the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship. She is experienced in identifying social entrepreneurs poised for systems-level impact and is passionate about driving more diverse, equitable, and inclusive practices in philanthropy to support underrepresented leaders on their path to scale.
Brittany Patterson

Brittany Patterson

Brittany Patterson is a senior manager on Chemonics’ peace, stability, and transition practice where she provides technical support to business development teams and projects across the globe. With expertise in post-conflict reconciliation processes, political transitions, conflict sensitive approaches to development, youth engagement, and violence prevention, Patterson has worked in more than 12 countries throughout Latin America, Asia, and Eastern Europe supporting PST programs.
Brittney Dunkins

Brittney Dunkins

Brittney Dunkins is a D.C.-based writer and editor with a passion for storytelling and all things content. She spends her days tracking trends on the higher education beat for GW Today and her nights pursuing an MBA in marketing communications at the George Washington University.
Brooke Avory

Brooke Avory

Based in Beijing, Brooke Avory is a manager in BSR’s global Partnership Development team. BSR works with its global network of more than 250 member companies to build a just and sustainable world. Ms. Avory's professional interests include sustainable development, cross-sector partnerships, and strategic philanthropy.