Meet the Devex Authors

Clarissa Brocklehurst

Clarissa Brocklehurst

Clarissa Brocklehurst is a water supply, sanitation, and hygiene specialist, who has worked for almost 40 years in the international development sector. She is an adjunct professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering of the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She previously served as the chief of WASH at UNICEF and helped establish the global Sanitation and Water for All partnership. Clarissa has also played a role in the development of strategy and advocacy for the global WASH sector and serves on several technical advisory groups for sector initiatives.
Claude Turmes

Claude Turmes

Claude Turmes is a member of the European Parliament from Luxembourg, representing Déi Gréng - Les Verts (Group of the European Greens/EFA). He has been an MEP since 1999, and sits on the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.
Claudia Ahumada

Claudia Ahumada

Claudia Ahumada is a global human rights lawyer and gender expert from Chile and Canada, specializing in participatory change. Working at the intersection of rights and evidence, she has built capacity and developed resources to meaningfully mainstream gender and diversity across change efforts. She is the lead of partnerships at GENDRO. A former UNAIDS staff member, she denounced the institutional actions taken to discredit women who spoke out against harassment.
Claudia Apel

Claudia Apel

Claudia Apel is a project manager and facilitator who understands the Global Leadership Academy's programs as a great way of exploring what it can look and feel like to take on new ways of thinking and acting, in order to bring forward more impactful formats for international cooperation and ultimately a world that works for all. Apel brings to her work the expertise from both of her diplomas in neuroscience and organizational psychology. She has published on the scientific impact evaluation of human capacity development programs, is a trainer for nonviolent communication and currently pursuing training in deep democracy.
Claudia Denkinger

Claudia Denkinger

Dr. Claudia Denkinger is the head of tuberculosis and hepatitis program at FIND. She completed her medical school training and doctoral thesis in immunology at the Julius-Maximilians University in Wuerzburg, Germany. She trained in internal medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston and also was the chief medical resident there. She has worked in nongovernmental organizations in HIV and tuberculosis care in South Africa and South America. She holds a faculty appointment in the division of infectious disease at the BIDMC, Harvard Medical School.
Claudia González Romo

Claudia González Romo

Claudia González Romo is a special adviser for UNICEF and also UNICEF’s global chief of public advocacy. Previously she was seconded to the Executive Office of the Secretary General of the United Nations, to lead communications for the special adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Climate Change.
Claudia López

Claudia López

Claudia López was elected mayor of Bogotá in October 2019 and started her mandate on Jan. 1, 2020. She became the city's first female and also the first openly diverse mayor in Bogotá’s history. She has an emphatic focus on environmental, social, and anti-corruption issues.
Claudia Sadoff

Claudia Sadoff

Dr. Claudia Sadoff is the executive managing director of CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural innovation network.
Claudia Schwegmann

Claudia Schwegmann

Claudia created OpenAid in 2009 to experiment with the use of social media to strengthen feedback processes at project level. She holds two master's degrees, in theology and political science, and has received professional training in evaluation, systemic organizational development and communication. Her professional passions lie in transparency, feedback processes, participation of civil society in governance, the use of technology and social media to facilitate social and political change.