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Theory of Change is a podcast about the future of global development — and the people trying to reshape it.
Hosted by Devex Senior Reporter Michael Igoe, the show features candid conversations with leaders in philanthropy, foreign policy, technology, finance, media, and humanitarian aid about the forces transforming how global change actually happens: power, politics, money, influence, and ideas.
Not a panel. A conversation with a real person.
Episodes are published every Tuesday.
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The podcast is produced by Devex Associate Editor Thomas Cserép and Mai Ylagan.
Hosted by Devex Senior Reporter Michael Igoe, the show features candid conversations with leaders in philanthropy, foreign policy, technology, finance, media, and humanitarian aid about the forces transforming how global change actually happens: power, politics, money, influence, and ideas.
Not a panel. A conversation with a real person.
Episodes are published every Tuesday.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@devex
The podcast is produced by Devex Associate Editor Thomas Cserép and Mai Ylagan.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
67 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
18 episodes
since June 2, 2026
episodic
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The recent history of U.S. foreign aid has been dominated by budget cuts, institutional dismantling, and massive workforce reductions.Against this backdrop, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, feels less like a template for modern foreign policy and more like a relic of …
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The California-based drone delivery company Zipline made waves last year when it secured a $150 million pay-for-performance grant from the U.S. State Department to scale up its operations in Africa.That announcement came just months after the State Department took control of the U.S. government’s f…
In a live episode of the Theory of Change podcast, Buddy Shah, CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative and chair of the Anthropic Long Term Benefit Trust, shared an inside look at the intersection of global health, market-shaping agreements, and artificial intelligence."The mistake that many of…
In a live episode of the Theory of Change podcast recorded at the Devex Impact House in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, David Beasley, the former World Food Programme executive director and former governor of South Carolina, laid out his playbook for navigating tod…
In an interview on Devex's Theory of Change podcast, Alight CEO Jocelyn Wyatt warned that the traditional humanitarian business model is facing structural failure.Following the collapse of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the transition of U.S. foreign aid programs to the U.S. Stat…
In the latest episode of the Theory of Change podcast, human rights activist Kavita Nandini Ramdas discussed the deep systemic contradictions of modern philanthropy, its uneasy relationship with grassroots activism, and why nonprofit organizations must stop playing quiet to keep elite funding.Ramda…
In the latest episode of the Theory of Change podcast, Nazanin Ash, CEO of Welcome.US, discussed how community-driven sponsorship could revolutionize refugee resettlement, bypass political gridlock, and offer a scalable alternative to overburdened government systems.Global forced displacement is at…
What is “country ownership,” really? And what gets in the way of making it a reality?Against a backdrop of historic cuts to development assistance by many of the world’s largest donors, the chorus of voices calling for national governments to set — and finance — their own development agendas is gro…
Twenty-five years ago, when Jacqueline Novogratz founded the impact investing nonprofit Acumen, she still had to prove that markets and entrepreneurship could work for people living in poverty — and help lift them out of it.In the years since, that has moved from a relatively fringe approach to fig…
For over two decades, the U.S. government has been a lynchpin in the global fight against HIV, pouring billions of dollars into treatment, prevention, and health systems strengthening through initiatives like the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR.Then came Elon Musk, the fo…
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