Meet the Devex Authors

Contributors

Contributors

Korinna Schumann, Austria’s minister of labor, social affairs, health, care and consumer protection; Jan Christian Vestre, Norway’s minister of health and care services; Dr. Hilal bin Ali bin Hilal Alsabti, Oman’s minister of health; Ong Ye Kung, Singapore’s minister for health and coordinating minister for social policies; and Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization’s director-general.
Cordelia Lonsdale

Cordelia Lonsdale

Cordelia Lonsdale is a policy and engagement adviser at Development Initiatives, an independent international development organisation focused on ending poverty by 2030. Cordelia works to inform policymakers and influence global policy processes, particularly to enhance the transparency and effectiveness of development finance.
Corey Luthringer

Corey Luthringer

Corey Luthringer is a senior associate at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition. She has been a GAIN consultant on a variety of projects since 2014, working primarily within large-scale food fortification and issues of improving fortified food quality and regulatory monitoring. Since 2012, she has studied and consulted with various global health and nutrition organizations in Latin America, South Asia, Europe, and Africa, including BRAC in Bangladesh and the U.N. World Food Program in Italy and the regional bureau in Egypt, where she specialized in emergency nutrition and resilience building.
Corina Gardner

Corina Gardner

Corina Gardner is the chief executive officer of the IDP Foundation — a global philanthropy dedicated to advancing affordable nonstate education in low- and lower-middle-income countries. The philanthropy has been running the Rising Schools program in Ghana for 15 years and launched the Ongoza program in Kenya in 2022.
Corina Villacorta

Corina Villacorta

Corina Villacorta is executive advisor on child rights for World Vision International in New York. With over 30 years experience in NGO leadership, she was previously regional vice president for the organization's operations in Latin America and the Caribbean. Recently she has also been involved in advancing the participation of children and young people in the post-2015 development agenda.
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.