Meet the Devex Authors

Carla Kriwet

Carla Kriwet

Carla Kriwet is executive vice president and CEO of the Connected Care businesses at Philips, as well as a member of the Royal Philips Executive Committee. A passionate advocate for patients and caregivers, Carla cares deeply about how digital innovation can radically change care delivery inside and outside the hospital, improving clinical and operational outcomes. With more than 20 years of experience in medical devices and other technology companies, Carla has a successful record of achieving ambitious targets and leading organizations through transformations. A former aid worker in Burundi, Carla is dedicated to furthering the way connected health technologies are expanding global access to primary care. She chairs Philips Community Life Centers program which bring appropriate, leading-edge technology to remote healthcare centers.
Carlijn Nouwen

Carlijn Nouwen

Carlijn Nouwen is a partner at Dalberg Advisors in the Johannesburg office with financial inclusion as one of her core focus areas. She works with public, private, and social sector clients to increase inclusion for un- and underbanked populations. This requires a deep and meaningfully different understanding of customer needs, combined with innovations in product/service offering, distribution, back-office processes and capitalization (including blended finance).
Carlos Cortés Zea

Carlos Cortés Zea

Carlos Cortes Zea is senior advisor to the U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. He has served as effective governance and democracy national officer at UNDP and as deputy director for policy formulation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico. He provides high-level officials with foresight-based policy analysis for strategic positioning.
Carlos del Rio

Carlos del Rio

Carlos del Rio is professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and professor of global health and epidemiology at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health. He is also chair at the PEPFAR scientific advisory board.
Carlos Lopes

Carlos Lopes

Carlos Lopes is executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa since March 2012. Prior to this appointment, he served as head of the U.N. Institute for Training and Research and director of the U.N. System Staff College, as well as other senior positions within the United Nations system.
Carlos Rossel

Carlos Rossel

Carlos Rossel is the World Bank Group publisher and has more than 25 years of experience in international professional and scholarly publishing. To support the bank’s role as supplier of global knowledge, the Office of the Publisher works with departments across the institution to develop and publish a range of products that cover the full spectrum of economic and social development to decision-makers, academia, general audiences and other constituencies. Prior to assuming his current position, Rossel, a native of Santiago, Chile, was operations and marketing manager for the World Bank’s Office of the Publisher.
Carlos Santamaria

Carlos Santamaria

Carlos is a former associate editor for breaking news in Devex's Manila-based news team. He joined Devex after a decade working for international wire services Reuters, AP, Xinhua, EFE ,and Philippine social news network Rappler in Madrid, Beijing, Manila, New York, and Bangkok. During that time, he also covered natural disasters on the ground in Myanmar and Japan.
Carlos Santamaria

Carlos Santamaria

Carlos Santamaria is a multimedia journalist and editor based in Manila. A former Devex associate editor, he has over a decade of experience working for international media outlets such as Reuters, Associated Press, Xinhua and EFE in Spain, China, the Philippines, Thailand and the United States, and has covered major crisis situations on the ground in Myanmar and Japan. Carlos is currently an editorial and communications consultant with the Asian Development Bank.
Carlos Manuel Rodríguez

Carlos Manuel Rodríguez

Carlos Manuel Rodríguez is CEO and chairperson of the Global Environment Facility.
Carmen Muñoz

Carmen Muñoz

Carmen Muñoz is the assistant director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council. She graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in history before joining the Peace Corps where she served in both Guatemala and Jamaica. She graduated in 2014 with a M.S. in foreign service, and M.A. in history from Georgetown University.