A preeminent expert on Libya, Diederik Vandewalle is an associate professor of government at Dartmouth College and an adjunct associate professor at its Tuck School of Business. His research focuses on the economic and political development of oil economies in North Africa and the Middle East, and he has lectured widely in academic and policy settings in the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Dirk has been a political adviser to the United Nations on Libya, a field director for the Carter Center’s mission there and the mission’s senior adviser on Democratic Transitions. The author of Libya Since Independence: Oil and State-building, Dirk also wrote A History of Modern Libya (2006 and 2012 editions, plus a 2013 French edition) as well as several edited volumes on development in North Africa and Libya.