Dr. Lamb is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Program on Crisis, Conflict, and Cooperation at CSIS, and a research scholar at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland (CISSM). Dr. Lamb studies governance and development amid conflict, with recent field research in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Pakistan. Dr. Lamb has presented his work to policymakers and experts in Afghanistan, Colombia, Germany, Greece, India, Pakistan, Romania, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. As a strategist in the Defense Department’s Strategy office in 2006 and 2007, he advised defense policymakers on terrorist, criminal, and insurgent networks. He earned his Ph.D. in policy studies in early 2010 from the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and his B.A. in interdisciplinary studies from Gettysburg College in 1993.