Meet the Devex Authors

Corinne Mazzeo

Corinne Mazzeo

Corinne Mazzeo is the vice president of programs at Vitamin Angels. In this role, she provides technical and managerial leadership to enhance Vitamin Angels’ program operations in the United States and around the world. Mazzeo has nearly two decades of experience in the global health and nutrition sector, having started her career working on HIV and nutrition programs in the early days of PEPFAR. Prior to joining Vitamin Angels, she held a series of senior-level management roles at Save the Children. Mazzeo received her Master of Health Sciences degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Corinne Podger

Corinne Podger

Corinne Podger is a media development practitioner with more than 20 years' experience reporting for high-profile news outlets including the BBC World Service, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the Economist. She works part time for BBC Media Action, the international charity of the BBC. Separately, as an independent consultant, she runs media skills training for a range of clients in her areas of expertise — social and multimedia, international news, science, health, climate change and religion.
Cormekki Whitley

Cormekki Whitley

Cormekki Whitley is the chief operating officer at data.org, a global nonprofit that accelerates the power of data and AI to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. With a background in financial management and fair lending, Whitley is committed to supporting a workforce and an economy where all people can succeed. Cormekki holds a Ph.D. in Accounting and Finance from North Central University.
Courtenay Cabot Venton

Courtenay Cabot Venton

Courtenay Cabot Venton is an international development economist and founder and executive director of The Share Trust. She is known for her work with U.N. agencies and major donors to evaluate the effectiveness of social and environmental interventions in reducing poverty.
Courtney Radsch

Courtney Radsch

Courtney C. Radsch has been a freelance editor and writer for Devex. Currently, she serves as associate editor and senior journalist for Al Arabiya's English-language Web site. She is a doctoral candidate at the American University's School of International Service, where her research focuses on the political impact of new media and blogging in Egypt. Courtney holds a master's degree in foreign service from Georgetown University and a bachelor's in mass communications from the University of California in Berkeley. She is fluent in French and proficient in Arabic and Spanish.
Craig Burgess

Craig Burgess

Dr. Craig Burgess is a senior technical advisor with JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. Over the last 25 years, he has worked on a broad range of public health issues related to equity, integration, primary health care, infectious disease control and health sector coordination. He has worked in civil war-torn contexts, chronic crises, emerging economies and high income countries at the community, district, national, regional and global levels with National Health Services, Médecins sans Frontières, MERLIN, UNAIDS, WHO, UNICEF and the Gavi Vaccine Alliance secretariat.
Craig Castagna

Craig Castagna

Craig Castagna is a program officer specializing in Mongolia at the International Republican Institute.
Craig Cogut

Craig Cogut

Craig Cogut is the founder, chairman and CEO of Pegasus Capital Advisors, a private equity fund and the first U.S. private equity fund manager to be accredited by the Green Climate Fund. In addition, Cogut has been an active philanthropist in the fields of improving education, building civil society, and championing environmental and health issues.
Craig Fagan

Craig Fagan

Craig Fagan is senior policy coordinator at Transparency International. Before joining Transparency International, he was a policy research analyst at the United Nations Development Program. He has more than 10 years experience on developing country policy issues, particularly in the Latin America. He specializes in anti-corruption, governance, and poverty reduction strategies as well as macroeconomic policies.
Craig Hanson

Craig Hanson

Craig Hanson is the director of WRI’s Food, Forests, and Water programs. Craig has co-developed a number of WRI’s leading projects including Global Forest Watch, Forest and Landscape Restoration, Forest Legality Alliance, Project POTICO, the Brazilian Business & Ecosystems Partnership, and is the lead author of a number of WRI publications.