Meet the Devex Authors

Bruce Byiers

Bruce Byiers

Bruce Byiers is a policy officer in the economic transformation team at the European Center for Development Policy Management, where he has worked since May 2011. He is currently working on issues related to the growing call to "engage the private sector for development," domestic resource mobilization, private sector investment in agriculture under CAADP, regional integration initiatives, aid for trade and trade facilitation.
Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell is the director of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security and a staff member of the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). He was previously based in Zimbabwe, Indonesia and Australia, where he has worked in agricultural and forestry research for development. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles and more than a dozen books.
Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell is the global coordinator of UNFPA’s Data for Development platform and sponsor of UNFPA’s innovation initiative. UNFPA is the lead United Nations agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.
Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell

Bruce Campbell is the senior policy advisor at the food systems section of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, SDC, and the focal point of the SDC Agriculture and Food Systems Network. He previously worked for the Swiss Permanent Mission to the U.N. organizations in Rome, Italy. He has an academic background in rural engineering, international development, and conflict analysis. He is also a co-chair of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development.
Bruce Gordon

Bruce Gordon

Bruce Gordon is the unit head of water, sanitation, hygiene, and health at the World Health Organization. He oversees a global portfolio of water and health-related work ranging from the development of norms on drinking-water and wastewater/sanitation to global monitoring of access to WASH and the burden of disease. Prior to joining the water unit at the World Health Organization in 2004, he contributed to the organization’s work on sustainable development with a focus on children’s health and environment. He has an academic background in biochemistry and environmental management.
Bruce Jenks

Bruce Jenks

Bruce Jenks is a senior non-resident fellow at Harvard University, an adjunct professor at Columbia University, and a lecturer at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and at the University of Geneva. Bruce served as assistant secretary general at UNDP until 2010 and worked closely with the last five UNDP administrators. He holds a doctoral degree from Oxford University.
Bruno Bruins

Bruno Bruins

Bruno Bruins is a Dutch politician serving as Minister for Medical Care and Sports since October 2017. A member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), he previously served as state secretary for Education, Culture and Science. He worked as a corporate director for the public transport company Connexxion and was chairman of the Employee Insurance Association.
Bryan Farris

Bryan Farris

As 2011 Acumen Fund fellow, Bryan works with Ansaar Management Co., a for-profit, low-cost housing development and management firm in Lahore, Pakistan. He was previously a consultant for management consulting firm Bain & Co., and there, he founded a group focusing on supporting social businesses.
Bryan Stirrat

Bryan Stirrat

Bryan Stirrat is head of Tetra Tech’s Marine Debris Prevention practice, and a senior manager of the firm’s Solid Waste Initiative. He has more than 40 years of experience in solid waste facility and system planning, design, and operation. A respected authority on innovative solid waste system operational strategies, he has been principal engineer on projects at more than 250 solid waste facilities in North America, the Pacific, and Central America.