Associate professor of government and adjunct associate professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. His research focuses on the economic and political development of oil economies in North Africa and the Middle East, and he is the author of several books on North Africa and Libya. He has lectured widely in academic and policy settings in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia, and was political advisor to the United Nations on Libya during the pre-assessment period in Summer 2011. He is currently Senior Advisor on Democratic Transitions for the Carter Centers mission to Libya, and is currently Field Director of the Carter Centers mission in Libya.