David Mansfield

David Mansfield is an independent socio-economic consultant, researcher, and author. He has been conducting research on rural livelihoods and cross border economies in Afghanistan since 1997. He has produced more than eighty research-based products, many for the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, and working in close partnership with Alcis Ltd. David has a PhD in development studies and is the author of “A State Built on Sand: How opium undermined Afghanistan.”