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 the Program on Conflict, Climate Change and Green Development at UC Berkely’s Renewable Energy Lab (RAEL), 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).