Ben is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. His research interests include conflict dynamics in civil wars, post-conflict reconstruction, and international development. Prior to starting at Princeton, he worked as a research assistant at the Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) project and at the Center for Global Development. Ben holds an MSc in Development Economics from the University of East Anglia and an AB in Economics and International & Area Studies from Washington University in St. Louis.