Meet the Devex Authors

Christine Sow

Christine Sow

Christine Sow is the president and CEO of Humentum, a global nonprofit dedicated to unlocking the strategic power of operating models for social good organizations. She is a highly accomplished leader with over 30 years of experience in global development and health. Her extensive experience includes more than 14 years in West Africa where she led health portfolios of UNICEF and USAID in Mali as well as Palladium and the Global Health Council.
Christine Williamson

Christine Williamson

Christine Williamson is the founding director of Duty of Care International and specializes in strengthening organizational resilience and people management practices. She works with nonprofits, NGOs, security and legal professionals, humanitarian specialists and HR teams to ensure organizations meet their duty of care responsibilities.
Christoph Benn

Christoph Benn

Dr. Christoph Benn is currently serving as senior advisor to the Global Fund after finishing his job as inaugural director of external relations at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Geneva in June 2018. He has been a member of the founding board at the creation of the Global Fund in 2002.
Christophe De Hauwer

Christophe De Hauwer

Christophe De Hauwer was appointed chief development officer of SES in August 2015. He is a member of the board of SES ASTRA and joined SES in 2003, holding several positions of responsibility in the areas of strategic marketing, strategic and business planning, and corporate development, as well as fleet development and yield management.
Christopher Clubb

Christopher Clubb

Chris Clubb has 20+ years of experience financing development projects in more than 50 emerging and frontier markets. Prior to joining Convergence, he was the director leading European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s financing/investment activities in its early transition countries where EBRD increased its annual investments five-fold to become the largest investor in these low-income countries.
Christopher East

Christopher East

Christopher East was a program manager on the DfID-funded President’s Delivery Team program in Sierra Leone, which provided technical assistance to the Sierra Leone government’s delivery unit in order to augment their delivery of the President’s post-Ebola recovery priorities. As part of Adam Smith International’s Public Sector Governance team, Christopher‘s foci are center of government reform, parliamentary strengthening and policy delivery.
Christopher Game

Christopher Game

Christopher Game is the chief procurement officer at the Global Fund, where he oversees the organization's approach to strategic sourcing and procuring of global health commodities for greater value and impact. He currently directs Procurement for Impact, a Global Fund initiative to set a new standard for global health procurement. He has previously worked for Novartis, Sandoz, Actavis and Abbott Laboratories.
Christopher Hirst

Christopher Hirst

Christopher Hirst has been with Palladium for 20 years. As CEO, he's passionate about positive impact whilst creating value for the company and our clients. Prior to his role as CEO, Christopher served as the managing director of strategy and corporate development. He led the organization's business and performance strategy. This included identifying, analysing and capturing new business opportunities globally; as well as impact investing asset management and impact investment advisory business services. In addition, as part of the global leadership team, he was a key decision maker in Palladium. Prior to this he oversaw Palladium's Middle East division for nine years including being seconded as the chief executive officer and board director of the Abu Dhabi Government's Farmers Service Centre for the latter 4 years. Christopher has also held senior management roles on numerous projects around the world as well as in Australia, the United States, Zimbabwe, and Papua New Guinea.
Christopher Ifeanyi-Nwanze

Christopher Ifeanyi-Nwanze

Christopher Ifeanyi-Nwanze is the director of communications and research at the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development. He previously headed the Open Society Initiative for West Africa’s communications unit and served as development communications officer with the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa’s African Institute for Economic Development and Planning.
Christopher Lim

Christopher Lim

Christopher Lim is the chief of the Pan American Health Organization’s Strategic Fund. Lim has more than 20 years of management consulting experience across various industries. He previously served as the head of strategic sourcing and supply chain management for a major pharmaceutical company and as an adjunct lecturer on program and project management and supply chain management at several universities.