David is the President and Co-Founder of Energy Peace Partners, which  supports renewable energy as a tool for peace. Dave has been involved in international conflict prevention and resolution efforts since 2001, with a focus on the Horn of Africa. Dave spent six years with the International Crisis Group, before moving to Humanity United to launch and run a track-2 initiative focused on South Sudan’s looming independence referendum. He served as an advisor to African Union High-​​Level Panel on the Sudans (AUHIP) during the negotiations around state separation. In 2016 he founded a Program UC Berkeley’s Renewable Energy Lab (RAEL), looking at options to leverage renewable energy as a tool for peace, which led to the launch of Energy Peace Partners in 2017. EPP supports renewable energy development in fragile states through a mix of pioneering research and an innovative financing mechanism called the Peace Renewable Energy Credit (P-REC).