On Monday morning, Sevilla’s traffic brought cars to a resounding halt. But despite the gridlock — and temperatures that reached 107 degrees Fahrenheit — thousands of world leaders, private sector heads, and United Nations reps flooded the Spanish city’s streets to talk about one thing: financing for development.
That includes Jesse Chase-Lubitz and Elissa Miolene, your Devex correspondents who will be reporting the news from the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development — and braving the unimaginable heat — until Thursday of this week.
We’ll also be reporting from Casa Devex, our two-day event on the sidelines of FfD4, where we’ll be joined by a diverse roster of officials and experts (and where a stray pigeon even joined us today, likely to get out of the climbing temperatures and into the air conditioning).
About the authors
Elissa Miolene
Elissa Miolene reports on USAID and the U.S. government at Devex. She previously covered education at The San Jose Mercury News, and has written for outlets like The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Washingtonian magazine, among others. Before shifting to journalism, Elissa led communications for humanitarian agencies in the United States, East Africa, and South Asia.
Jesse Chase-Lubitz
Jesse Chase-Lubitz covers climate change and multilateral development banks for Devex. She previously worked at Nature Magazine, where she received a Pulitzer grant for an investigation into land reclamation. She has written for outlets such as Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, and The Japan Times, among others. Jesse holds a master’s degree in Environmental Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics.
