David Andrew Wardell has over forty years of experience working on natural resource governance, capacity development and finance issues in over twenty South-East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa countries. He is a Principal Scientist at CIFOR-ICRAF with the Value Chains, Finance and Investment team based in Montpellier. He was formerly a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for World Environment History at the University of Sussex, and a Danish diplomat. He has published three books and edited collections, over fifty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and seventy technical publications.