Meet the Devex Authors

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.
Craig Hatcher

Craig Hatcher

Craig Hatcher is the governance adviser at Helvetas Switzerland. He has worked in international development cooperation since 2010 and joined Helvetas as a governance adviser in 2017. He has experience in advising on a range of urban governance and legal issues in Africa, Asia, Central America, and Europe and holds a doctorate in informality and urban governance.
Craig Moscetti

Craig Moscetti

Craig Moscetti is an independent consultant and freelance writer with expertise in global health policy research, analysis and advocacy. He’s previously held policy analyst and manager positions with the Global Health Council, Bread for the World, and Congressional Research Service, as well as consulted for the Pan American Health Organization. Currently based in Minneapolis, MN, Craig is also a competitive triathlete and runner, and coaches aspiring endurance athletes.
Craig Valters

Craig Valters

Craig Valters is a research officer for politics and governance at the Overseas Development Institute. He has an interest in security and justice provision in conflict-affected regions of the world. His work is also concerned with how aid organizations can learn and adapt to the complex social environments they work in, with his recent research analyzing the value of Theory of Change approaches.