war and state formation, and warlordism.
He was a graduate research fellow at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2008 to 2010. He also has worked as a consultant for DAI, an international development contracting agency based in greater Washington, D.C. area, and Proximity Design, a social enterprise based in Yangon, Myanmar. He is fluent in Burmese, English, and Mandarin Chinese and has a working knowledge of Spanish, French and Thai.